Agitprop drama in Edward Bond's

Abstract EN

Because of the hard events, which the twentieth century had witnessed, many political dramatic movements appeared.

It is noticeable that these movements used what is termed as "agitprop", originally employed by the Communist Party to propagate its ideas and thoughts at the beginning of the century, to instigate the audience against the corrupt political systems and the social conditions.

One of the significant English dramatists who came to be known in the second half of the twentieth century is Edward Bond (1934- ).

Employing agitprop drama in his plays, Bond is known for presenting shocking events and extreme violence on the stage to instigate the audience and awaken them to recognize the socio-political defects in their life.

This paper aims at studying agitprop drama as employed by Edward Bond in one of his well- known plays, Saved.