Barker: Plays Seven

Informationen zum Autor Howard Barker is an internationally renowned dramatist, whose first plays were performed at the Royal Court and by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since 1992 his work has been presented by his own company The Wrestling School. Barker’s theatre is characterized by its poetic, non-naturalistic form and inhabits worlds of contradiction, suffering and sexual passion. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’ defines a new form of tragedy for our times. Klappentext The seventh anthology of work from internationally renowned and provocative dramatist Howard Barker. Vorwort The seventh anthology of work from internationally renowned and provocative dramatist Howard Barker. Zusammenfassung Howard Barker is Britain's greatest living stage poet and the most compelling and indefinable dramatist of his time. This collection contains the plays Und, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog and Learning Kneeling, that continue Barker's ongoing fascination with Theatre of Catastrophe. Inhaltsverzeichnis "Und! 7 The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo! 51 12 Encounters With a Prodigy! 111 Christ's Dog! 187 Learning Kneeling! 253"

Product details

• Authors: Howard Barker, Howard (Author) Barker
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781849434010
• ISBN: 978-1-84943-401-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights; Oberon Modern Plays; Oberon Modern Playwrights
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies