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9780230577404

Howard Barker: Politics and Desire An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230577404

  • ISBN10:

    0230577407

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $54.99

Summary

This is a new, revised and#xA0;updated#xA0;paperback#xA0;edition of the critically acclaimed first full-length critical assessment of this most individual, challenging, conceptually energetic of British dramatists, whose recognition and influence have extended to a position of international eminence.

Author Biography

DAVID IAN RABEY is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK, and a dramatist, director and performer. His numerous critical publications include English Drama Since 1940, Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker (as co-editor) and Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death. He has directed and/or acted in eleven Barker productions to date, including performing the role of Isonzo in Barker's own production of The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo. He is an Associate of Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword to the Paperback Edition
Chronology
Lubricating Progress through the Forbidden Innocence and Authority Independence and the Family Between Two Worlds New Manner for New Situation Landscapes of Shame, Eruptions of Desire Splintered Faith and Scar Tissue Power and the Body Every Man's Evil Expresses Me Pain and Breakthrough Catastrophe is also Birth: Inconclusion
Appendix: Conversations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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