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Lear : the Shakespeare company plays Lear at Babylon by Mike Johnson; William Shakespeare is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Lear : the Shakespeare company plays Lear at Babylon about?

A plague driven band of vagabonds and beggars, calling themselves The Shakespeare Company, arrive at the decaying little town of Babylon, where they perform King Lear in a whirl of mayhem and madness. As the night proceeds, they spin out of control, embodied by their roles. Narrated by the girl Curan, a minor character, this novel is part black comedy, part tragedy, part carnival, and implicitly dystopian. It is a bizarre and disturbing novel of a plague society in social and moray decay. A novel that challenges the reader at every turn. Erotic, eerie and disturbing, Johnson's novel reinvents the emotional dynamic of Shakespeare's play, as in a distorted mirror. It does not, however, require knowledge of the play to work it's magic as a piece of fiction. 'Johnson makes an original contribution to the literature of disaster, and certainly to the nation's literature that still struggles beneath the mantle of social realism; he does it by the sheer intensity of his poetic vision, combined with an adroit meta-fictional sense... In this fallen world, does falling matter? Johnson's novel is an exuberant, artful meditation on this question...' David Dowling, Landfall. 'He has achieved a k

Author

Mike Johnson; William Shakespeare

Publisher

Auckland, New Zealand: 99% Press, an imprint of Lasavia Publishing Ltd

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780994101501