Rabey, David Ian
The Wye Plays
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.
Keywords: King Lear, Shakespeare
- Author(s)
- Rabey, David Ian
- Publisher
- Intellect
- Publication year
- 2004
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 158 pages
- Categories
- Litterary Studies
- Novels
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 1-84150-902-7