The Wye plays :the back of beyond, and the battle of the crows

  • 作者: Rabey, David Ian,
  • 出版: Bristol, UK ;Portland, OR : Intellect 2004.
  • 稽核項: 1 online resource (iv, 153 pages) :illustrations.
  • 標題: DRAMA , DRAMA English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , Electronic books. , plays (performing arts compositions) , Drama , English literature. , Drama. , Littérature anglaise. , Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
  • ISBN: 1280476958 , 9781280476952
  • ISBN: 1841501158 , 9781841501154
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  • 附註: Includes bibliographical references (page 150). The back of beyond -- The battle of the crows.
  • 摘要: 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 visual imagery contribute to the sense of a land where the signposts have been smashed. A sequel to THE BACK OF BEYOND, THE BATTLE OF THE CROWS extends and concludes the stories of three characters - a maverick witch, a renegade knight, and an abuse victim made empress - in a harrowing and humorous exploration of border warfare, witchcraft, massacre, bitchery, hilarity and heartbreak. THE BATTLE OF THE CROWS is partly a dramatic speculation about desire as magic, partly a sad reckless laugh at internecine hostilities and the passionate and disastrous transformations which spring up in the face of Death itself.
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