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The Wye plays : The back of beyond, and The battle of the crows / David Ian Rabey.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 2004 until 2004. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabey, David Ian, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 150).
- Contains:
- Back of beyond.
- Battle of the crows.
- ISBN:
- 9786610476954
- 9781280476952
- 1280476958
- 9781841509020
- 1841509027
- OCLC:
- 70734533
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