Another of his plays begins with the assertion "The events of this play are true," even though its events include a character eating someone who butted in front of him in line, and Queen Victoria strangling Prince Albert with a garter sash and having a lesbian affair with Florence Nightingale.
A play by this author ends with a scene in which a character fixes a chair while other characters silently go about their household lives, and the only line spoken in that scene is "Fetch me 'ammer." Another of his plays begins with the assertion "The events of this play are true," even though its events include a character eating someone who butted in front of him in line, and Queen Victoria strangling Prince Albert with a garter sash and having a lesbian affair with Florence Nightingale. The abolition of theatre censorship in Britain in 1968 was influenced by the controversy surrounding a play by this author in which a baby is (*) stoned to death in its pram. The title character has daughters named Bodice and Fontanelle in a Shakespeare adaptation by this playwright whose extreme acts of violence include knitting needles being jabbed into Warrington's ears and the main character's eyeballs being removed. For 10 points, name this British author of Early Morning, Saved and Lear
A play by this author ends with a scene in which a character fixes a chair while other characters silently go about their household lives, and the only line spoken in that scene is "Fetch me 'ammer."
Edward Bond