02478nam 2200577Ia 450 991045078370332120200520144314.01-280-47695-897866104769541-84150-902-7(CKB)1000000000338323(EBL)283048(OCoLC)70734533(SSID)ssj0000081988(PQKBManifestationID)11110982(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081988(PQKBWorkID)10137565(PQKB)10444638(MiAaPQ)EBC283048(Au-PeEL)EBL283048(CaPaEBR)ebr10058908(CaONFJC)MIL47695(EXLCZ)99100000000033832320040728d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Wye plays[electronic resource] The back of beyond, and The battle of the crows /David Ian RabeyBristol, UK ;Portland, OR Intellect20041 online resource (158 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-115-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 150).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 CompanyA 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 vDramaEnglish literatureElectronic books.Drama.English literature.822/.92Rabey David Ian1958-945937MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450783703321The Wye plays2469558UNINA