{"product_id":"9781841501154","title":"Wye Plays: The Back of Beyond and the Battle of the Crows","description":"\u003cp\u003eA first volume of plays by a startlingly ambitious and inventive dramatist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Back of Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e takes, as its starting point, the route of a sequel to \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Back of Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of the Crows\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of the Crows\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039074533616,"sku":"9781841501154","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841501154_p0.jpg?v=1763741073","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841501154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}