The Wye Plays : The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows.
Başlık:
The Wye Plays : The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows.
Yazar:
Rabey, David.
ISBN:
9781841509020
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Seri:
Intellect Books - Playtext
İçerik:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Back of Beyond -- On Being a Shakespearian Dramatist: An Approach to The Back of Beyond -- PROLOGUE -- ACT ONE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- ACT TWO, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- SCENE FOUR -- ACT THREE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- ACT FOUR, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- SCENE FOUR -- ACT FIVE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- The Battle of the Crows -- Hatched in Emptiness, Over Emptiness, But Flying: An Introduction to The Battle of the Crows -- PROLOGUE -- ACT ONE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- ACT TWO, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- SCENE FOUR -- ACT THREE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- ACT FOUR, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- SCENE FOUR -- SCENE FIVE -- SCENE SIX -- SCENE SEVEN -- ACT FIVE, SCENE ONE -- SCENE TWO -- SCENE THREE -- SCENE FOUR -- 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 -- Back Cover.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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