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" The Wye plays : "
David Ian Rabey.
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BL
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990961
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b745331
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| Main Entry
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Rabey, David Ian,1958-
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The Wye plays : : the back of beyond, and the battle of the crows /\ David Ian Rabey.
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| Publication Statement
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Bristol, UK ;Portland, OR :: Intellect,, 2004.
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1 online resource (iv, 153 pages) :: illustrations
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1280476958
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: 1841509027
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: 9781280476952
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: 9781841509020
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1841501158
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9781841501154
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Includes bibliographical references (page 150).
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| Contents
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The back of beyond -- The battle of the crows.
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| Abstract
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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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Drama.
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English literature.
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DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Drama.
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English literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.92
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PR6118.A24W9 2004eb
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