The Wye plays [[electronic resource] ] : The back of beyond, and The battle of the crows / / David Ian Rabey
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Bristol, UK ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drama |
| English literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Wye plays |
| ISBN: | 1-280-47695-8 |
| 9786610476954 | |
| 1-84150-902-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450783703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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