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UNINA9910450783703321 |
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Autore |
Rabey David Ian <1958-> |
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Titolo |
The Wye plays [[electronic resource] ] : The back of beyond, and The battle of the crows / / David Ian Rabey |
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Bristol, UK ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-47695-8 |
9786610476954 |
1-84150-902-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Drama |
English literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 150). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; The Back of Beyond; The Battle of the Crows; Afterword: Grace and Havoc: Shape- Shifting and the Imaginative Landscape of The Wye Plays; About the Author; Further Reading; Lurking Truth/Gwir sy'n Llechu Theatre Company |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A first volume of plays by a startlingly ambitious and inventive dramatist. THE BACK OF BEYOND takes, as its starting point, the route of a sequel to KING LEAR, in which the surviving Shakespearean characters set out on an odyssey through a perilous, blasted landscape, and encounter new agents of cruelty, desire and magic. Wildly humorous and fiercely shocking, the play charts a series of remorseless exposures, interrogating the idealisms and brutal repressions that have informed Anglo-Welsh relations whilst subverting Shakespearean motifs; tragically humorous poetic language and nightmarish v |
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