Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is a 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond. It depicts an ageing William Shakespeare at his Warwickshire home in 1615 and 1616 suffering pangs of conscience in part because he signed a contract which protected his landholdings on the condition that he would not interfere with an enclosure of common lands that would hurt the local peasant farmers. Although the play is fictional this contract has a factual basis.
author
Edward Bond
character in play
2nd Old Woman, Ben Jonson, Jerome, Joan, Judith, Old Man, Old Woman, Son, Wally, William Combe, William Shakespeare, Young Woman
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