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An idle frippery or play
ISBN: 979-8285488842
ENTER ONCE MORE INTO RICHARD CRAVENÔÇÖS BRISTOLÔÇöA RANCID, RHETORICAL HELLSCAPE WHERE VENGEANCE PLAYS TO THE CHEAP SEATS AND NO ONE ESCAPES UNMARKED.
In this third volume of the Bristolian ChroniclesÔÇöand his only work for the stageÔÇöRichard Craven delivers a full-length revenge tragedy in verse, complete with masques, murder, and a cast of the most biblically sordid reprobates ever to grace the theatrical page. At its centre stands Squalor: prologue-speaker, filth-savant, and gleeful herald of the actionÔÇÖs descent. Around him swarm tantrically deluded gurus, demented Tolstoyans, vengeful daughters, and moral pariahs locked in a spiral of ritual humiliation and baroque retribution.
The play is rendered in CravenÔÇÖs signature iambic bile: a toxic brew of Jacobean intensity, Restoration excess, and Bristolian derangement. Satirical, obscene, and formally virtuosic, The Senseless Counterfeit is a theatrical artefact from a world that has abandoned redemptionÔÇöand replaced it with performance.
Characters, Locations, Items and Pubs
- Mr Luvvertory - Character
- Constable Wifebeating-Cokehead -
- Montypee - Location
- Slime - Character
- Horfield -
- The Old Disgrace - Pub
- Stokes Croft - Location
- Easton - Location
- Bedminster - Location