{"product_id":"the-senseless-counterfeit-richard-craven-9798285488842","title":"The Senseless Counterfeit: An idle frippery or play","description":"\u003cb\u003eENTER ONCE MORE INTO RICHARD CRAVEN'S BRISTOL-A RANCID, RHETORICAL HELLSCAPE WHERE VENGEANCE PLAYS TO THE CHEAP SEATS AND NO ONE ESCAPES UNMARKED.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this third volume of the Bristolian Chronicles-and his only work for the stage-Richard 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 action's descent. Around him swarm tantrically deluded gurus, demented Tolstoyans, vengeful daughters, and moral pariahs locked in a spiral of ritual humiliation and baroque retribution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe play is rendered in Craven's signature iambic bile: a toxic brew of Jacobean intensity, Restoration excess, and Bristolian derangement. Satirical, obscene, and formally virtuosic, \u003ci\u003eThe Senseless Counterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e is a theatrical artefact from a world that has abandoned redemption-and replaced it with performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Craven \u003c\/b\u003eis a British-Canadian former academic philosopher who has spent the last twenty years in Bristol. Since leaving academia, he has dedicated himself to writing mordantly satirical literary fiction and the resurrection of formal verse for a 21st century readership. \u003ci\u003eThe Senseless Counterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e is his fourth book, following \u003ci\u003eBile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmoeba Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePretty Poli\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Craven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798285488842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Richard Craven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801038401791,"sku":"9798285488842","price":16.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-senseless-counterfeit-richard-craven-9798285488842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}