Howard Barker by Barker, Howard

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Theatre of Howard Barker. by Lamb, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Barker and the British theatre; Postmodernism and the theatre; Seduction; Judith -- a seduction; The Castle; The shape of darkness; Appendix: interview with Howard Barker; Notes; Chronology of Barker productions; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Howard Barker's art of theatre : Essays on his plays, poetry and production work. by Rabey, David

Table of Contents: “…Performance within performance: Howard Barker and the acted life -- some thoughts: Melanie Jessop; 3. …”
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Howard Barker interviews 1980-2010 : conversations in catastrophe /

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Plays nine by Barker, Howard, 1946-

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Modern British playwriting : the 1970s : voices, documents, new interpretations by Megson, Christopher

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Modern British playwriting : voices, documents, new interpretations. The 1980s.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the 1980s; Domestic life; Education; Culture; Media; Science, technology and industry; Political events; 1 Theatre in the 1980s; Thinking about the recent past; Institutions, policies and funding; New writing and playwrights in the 1980s; Cultures of protest: issue as subject matter; Present pasts; 2 Introducing the Playwrights; Crafting careers; Howard Barker; Jim Cartwright; Sarah Daniels; Timberlake Wertenbaker; 3 Playwrights and Plays; Howard Barker; The two lives of a play; The slippery Howard Barker.…”
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The politics and poetics of contemporary English tragedy by Carney, Sean, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…David Hare: the work of mourning, or, the agony and the ecstasy of the bourgeoisie -- Howard Barker: will and desire -- from the tragedy of socialism to the ecstasy of the unconscious -- Edward Bond: tragedy and postmodernity, or, the Promethean impulse -- Caryl Churchill: the Dionysian Möbius strip -- New English tragedians: the tragedy of the tragic.…”
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Theatre of animation : contemporary adult puppet plays in context

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; All He Fears; Title of Production: 'All He Fears'; Interview with Howard Barker; Why Promote Text-based Drama for Live Animation?…”
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Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights by Patterson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview -- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) -- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) -- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975) -- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell -- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974) -- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) -- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975) -- Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971) -- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979).…”
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Barker. by Barker, Howard

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Eroticism and death in theatre and performance

Table of Contents: “…6 Eros/sex, death/murder: sensuality, homicide and culture in Musil, Brecht and the Neue Sachlichkeit by George Hunka7 The living corpse: a metaphysic for theatre by Dic Edwards; 8 Flirting with disaster by David Ian Rabey; 9 Howard Barker's 'monstrous assaults': eroticism, death and the antique text by Graham Saunders; 10 'Welcome to the house of fun': Eros, Thanatos, and the uncanny in grand illusions by Michael Mangan; 11 Visions of Xs: experiencing La Fura dels Baus's XXX and Ron Athey's Solar Anus by.…”
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Rewriting Shakespeare's plays for and by the contemporary stage

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Genealogies of Identity : Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality. by Breen, Margaret Sonser

Table of Contents: “…Catastrophic Sexualities in Howard Barker's Theatre of TransgressionUn-sacred Cows and Protean Beings: Suniti Namjoshi's Re-writing of Postcolonial Lesbian Bodies; Desire-less-ness; PART III: Bodies: Representations of Gender Identities; Underneath the Clothes -- Transvestites without Vests: A Consideration in Art; Of Swords and Rings: Genital Representation as Defining Sexual Identity and Sexual Liberation in Some Old French Fabliaux and Lais; Only with You -- Maybe -- If You Make Me Happy: A Genealogy of Serial Monogamy as Governance Self-Governance.…”
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Adapting Chekhov : the text and its mutations

Table of Contents: “…Douglas Clayton -- Rewriting Chekhov in Russia today: questioning a fragmented society and finding new aesthetic reference points / Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu -- The flight of the dead bird: Chekhov's The seagull and Williams's The notebook of Trigorin / Maria Ignatieva -- Talking and walking past each other: Chekhovian "echoes" in Czech drama and theatre / Veronika Ambros -- Howard Barker's (Uncle) Vanya: Chekhov shaken, not stirred / Charles Lamb -- Transtextual crossbreeds in post-communist context: an anthropological analysis of Horia Gârbea's The seagull from the cherry orchard / Diana Manole -- Chekhov in the age of globalization: Janusz Glowacki's The fourth sister / Magda Romanska -- Theatre and subaltern histories: Chekhov adaptation in post-colonial India / Bishnupriya Dutt -- What comes "after Chekhov"? …”
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to contemporary British and Irish literature

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 16 Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman's Fiction -- Language -- Place -- Conclusion -- James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Howard Barker (and " the Art of Theatre ") -- Biographical Landmarks -- The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe -- The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy -- The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy -- References -- Chapter 18 Marina Lewycka -- References -- Chapter 19 Dermot Healy -- References -- Chapter 20 David Edgar -- References -- Chapter 21 Ian McEwan…”
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Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography

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