Wye Plays
$28.50
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Description
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.
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.
Acknowledgments
On Being a Shakespearian Dramatist: An Approach to The Back of Beyond The Back of Beyond
Hatched in Emptiness, Over Emptiness, But Flying: An Introduction to The Battle of the Crows The Battle of the Crows
Afterword: Grace and Havoc: Shape-Shifting and the Imaginative Landscape of The Wye Plays, by Mick Mangan
About the Author
Further Reading
On Being a Shakespearian Dramatist: An Approach to The Back of Beyond The Back of Beyond
Hatched in Emptiness, Over Emptiness, But Flying: An Introduction to The Battle of the Crows The Battle of the Crows
Afterword: Grace and Havoc: Shape-Shifting and the Imaginative Landscape of The Wye Plays, by Mick Mangan
About the Author
Further Reading
