TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rabey,David Ian
TI  - The Wye plays: the back of beyond, and the battle of the crows 
SN  - 9781841509020
AV  - PR6118.A24 W9 2004eb
U1  - 822/.92 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Bristol, UK, Portland, OR
PB  - Intellect
KW  - Drama
KW  - English literature
KW  - Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
KW  - Littérature anglaise
KW  - plays (performing arts compositions)
KW  - aat
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 150); The back of beyond -- The battle of the crows; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK); Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=108339
ER  -