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Through his powerful stage poetry Howard Barker creates a world peopled by characters who live at the extreme edges of experience. In this second fully revised edition of his acclaimed…
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Including new interviews, a revised introduction, an updated bibliography and a full production chronology, this second, fully revised edition of an acclaimed study sets out to make emotional sense of…
Howard Barker (Author)
Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects.
The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays include Ahno, Distance, Critique…
Fiona Barker
Aria has her head in the clouds. Yusuf keeps his feet on the ground. But when they work together to save a bird who has lost her way, something magical…
Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet…
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A collection of four of Howard Barker’s acclaimed plays: Victory, The Europeans, The Possibilities and Scenes From An Execution.
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The fifth anthology from Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time.
Features fifteen varied essays that discuss the style, language and vision of one of Britain’s most influential and controversial playwrights. This work includes analyses of the political, moral and historical…
Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases, Volume 205 comprehensively covers the scientific background, translational efforts, clinical developments and registered biologics that have entered into clinical practice. Coverage includes types…
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Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The latest volume in Oberon’s Howard Barker series comprises the…
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. This book features his plays.
A provocative new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.
A seminal text for students of the theatre, back in print in a revised and updated edition with nine new essays.
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The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The latest volume in Oberon’s…
Examining the collisions of culture, gender and creed at moments of turmoil, this volume contains plays including Claw , Ursula , He Stumbled , and In The Love of a…
The loss of faith and cynical corruption of the few priests left at the Abbey of Calcetto is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied…
An essential item for all those who are concerned with modern British theater, including students, academics, and practitioners.
A contemporary classic, this is internationally renowned playwright Howard Barker’s most famous and accessible play.
Internationally renowned writer Howard Barker’s provocative Bible of amorality.
The theatre of Howard Barker subverts myth and invents history in its pursuit of the meaning of individual integrity. Repudiating politics and asserting the primacy of the emotions, Barker’s tragedy…
A haunting and deeply moving portrait of a marriage in the face of apocalyptic destruction, this play is a beautifully witty reimagining of the biblical story of Lot, exposing the…
Howard Barker
Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the book looks at the human experience of love and death as life at its most intrinisically theatrical.
Howard Barker is a dramatist, poet and painter whose works for the stage are performed extensively in Europe, the US, and Australia. With an ecstatic faith in the potential of…
The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker’s plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose.
The latest collection of Barker’s distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre, this is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic apercus that casts a unique light…
Rarely is theatre so relentlessly rigorous, so remote and yet so ravishing. London Times
Howard Barker does not accept the conventions of what he terms The Establishment Theatre . These writings on the nature of theatre reject the constraints of objective academic theatre criticism…
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The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.
Lara Maleen Kipp
Despite influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker’s active involvement in the design of set, costume, lighting and sound, no in-depth published study on this aspect of his work…
This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker’s achievements, theatrical and otherwise – .
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre.
D. Rabey
This is a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the critically acclaimed first full-length critical assessment of this most individual, challenging, conceptually energetic of British dramatists, whose recognition and…
David I Rabey,Henk Huijser
Eduardo Houth,Howard Barker
Eduardo Houth is the author’s alter-ego. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, the author achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity. The…
Howard C Barker
I’ve Always Loved Older Women is an intimate memoir written by Howard Barker. Born in 1924, he shares stories of growing up in rural Mississippi, the tragic loss of both…
Barker has been acclaimed as ‘England’s greatest living dramatist’ in The Times and as ‘the Shakespeare of our age’ by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original…
The ESV Study Bible, Personal Size compresses the features of the award-winning ESV Study Bible into a smaller size for easier carrying.
The ESV Study Bible--created by a diverse team of 95 leading Bible scholars and teachers--features 20,000 study notes, 80,000 cross-references, 200+ charts, 50+ articles, 240 full-color maps and illustrations, and…
Chris Enss,Howard Kazanjian
Was Arizona Donnie Clark, AKA Kate Ma Barker the mastermind behind the Barker gang terrorizing the Midwest during the early years of the great Depression? Or was she a terrible…
Paul Howard Musser
Life of the first champion of American independence in literature and art and a Philadelphia political figure, with a reprint of what is considered the best American play written before…
Danny REALLY wants a dog. He wants a dog so much that he DREAMS about them. When a new neighbour and their four-legged friend move into the house next door…
10% OF NET PROFITS FROM EACH BOOK ARE DONATED TO THE MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY. Setsuko loves the sea. She swims its shallows. She dives its depths. But she worries that…
Clive Barker,Brian Lumley,Howard Phillip Lovecraft
Contains more than 20 terrifying short stories with an underwater theme… some are reprints from classics, the majority are new terrifying tales from the deep by contemporary award-winners or emerging…
