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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450783703321

Autore

Rabey David Ian <1958->

Titolo

The Wye plays [[electronic resource] ] : The back of beyond, and The battle of the crows / / David Ian Rabey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect, 2004

ISBN

1-280-47695-8

9786610476954

1-84150-902-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Disciplina

822/.92

Soggetti

Drama

English literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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