The Wye Plays

The Back of Beyond and The Battle of the Crows

von David Ian Rabey

151 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Intellect Books
• ISBN: 9781841501154
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2004
• Größe: 243 x 172 mm
• Verlag: Intellect Books - IPSUK