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Howard Barker: Plays 11 by Howard Barker
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23The 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. ... -
Howard Barker: Plays Three by Howard Barker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22Howard Barker is one of the most significant and contraversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The plays in this volume examine collisions of culture, gender and... -
Howard Barker: Plays Ten by Howard Barker 9781786824219
Booksplease Price: £24.63The tenth collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. Plays Ten comprises the plays Ahno,... -
BLOK/EKO by Howard Barker
Booksplease Price: £12.27Howard Barker's theatre is characterized by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent social unanimity, both in the sexual and political... -
Dead Hands by Howard Barker
Booksplease Price: £9.68The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.About the AuthorHoward Barker is an internationally... -
Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker 9780719052491
Booksplease Price: £23.54There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.About the AuthorHoward Barker is a dramatist of... -
Arguments For A Theatre by Howard Barker 9781783198054
Booksplease Price: £20.70This new edition of Barker's seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his 'Theatre of Catastrophe'. Author of over thirty plays, Howard Barker has long been an... -
Plays Six by Howard Barker 9781840029611
Booksplease Price: £23.38"(Uncle) Vanya," Barker's radical rewriting of Chekhov's classic, brought him more controversy than most of his other works put together. Interrogating not so much Chekhov's text as the use to which... -
The Theatre of Howard Barker by Charles Lamb
Booksplease Price: £46.49In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This is a detailed exploration of... -
Barker: Plays Eight by Howard Barker
Booksplease Price: £21.68The Trojan legend and the character of Helen form the basis for The Bite of the Night. As with all Barker's mythical and historical works, it is overlaid and undermined by a contemporary narrative,... -
Lot and His God by Howard Barker
Booksplease Price: £12.77"I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy..." Sodom. The day before the city's total annihilation. Among the grimy tables of a run-down... -
The Ecstatic Bible by Howard Barker 9781849434171
Booksplease Price: £19.71A New Testament informed by the turmoil ofthe twentieth century, The Ecstatic Bible is a series of interlocking narratives based around the 100-year courtship of a faithless priest and a woman whose... -
Barker: Plays Five by Howard Barker 9781840028867
Booksplease Price: £18.18Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face.The fifth anthology from Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time... -
Barker: Plays Seven by Howard Barker 9781849434010
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Und, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog and Learning Kneeling. Howard Barker is... -
A Style and Its Origins by Howard Barker 9781840027181
Booksplease Price: £18.18Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company. The Wrestling School, one among many fictional identities assumed by... -
Death, The One and the Art of Theatre by Howard Barker
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems... -
Barker: Plays Two by Howard Barker 9781840026481
Booksplease Price: £22.66Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays... -
Barker: Plays One by Howard Barker 9781840026122
Booksplease Price: £24.63Includes the plays Victory, The Europeans, The Possibilities and Scenes From An Execution. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays... -
The Theatre of Howard Barker Charles Lamb 9780415315319
Booksplease Price: £17.03In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This is a detailed exploration of... -
Barker: Plays Nine by Howard Barker 9781783193110
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.22The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Internationally renowned, his plays challenge, unsettle and expose. The... -
Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker 9781849434683
Booksplease Price: £12.80Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage. In her fierce determination to... -
The Seduction of Almighty God by Howard Barker 9781840027112
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.77"The Seduction of Almighty God" is set during the dissolution of the monasteries, a critical moment in the history of the English priesthood. The loss of faith and cynical corruption of the few... -
Howard Barker: Plays Twelve: At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition by Howard Barker
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68The 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... -
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Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker 9780719052491 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.43There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.About the AuthorHoward Barker is a dramatist of... -
Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010: Conversations in Catastrophe Mark Brown 9781841503981
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64British playwright Howard Barker coined the term 'theatre of catastrophe' to describe his unique brand of complex, ambiguous, and often unsettling drama. Revered in continental Europe, North America,... -
Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama: From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays by Alireza Fakhrkonandeh 9783030286989
Booksplease Price: £51.88This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis... -
The Scenography of Howard Barker: The Wrestling School Aesthetic 1998-2011 by Lara Maleen Kipp
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker has been engaging with the scenography of the Wrestling School's productions since 1998. Despite this active involvement in the... -
Howard Barker's Art of Theatre: Essays on His Plays, Poetry and Production Work by David Rabey
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Director-dramatist Howard Barker is a restlessly prolific, compulsively controversial and provocative multi-media artist. Beyond his internationally performed and acclaimed theatrical productions,... -
Plays Four: I Saw Myself, The Dying of Today, Found in the Ground, The Road, The House by Howard Barker 9781840028515
Booksplease Price: £21.68Howard Barker is one of the most controversial British dramatists of his time. His plays unsettle, challenge, and expose. The contradictions of the humanist personality are explored in the following... -
Howard Barker: Politics and Desire: An Expository Study of his Drama and Poetry, 1969-87 by David Ian Rabey 9781349199129
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349199129Author David Ian RabeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint -
Howard Barker: Politics and Desire: An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87 by David Ian Rabey 9780230577404
Booksplease Price: £41.36This 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... -
Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death: An Expository Study of His Plays and Production Work, 1988-2008 by David Rabey 9781349544363
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.75Barker 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 forms... -
Judith Butler and Subjectivity: The Possibilities and Limits of the Human by Parisa Shams 9789811560507
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book contextualises philosophy by bringing Judith Butler's critique of identity into dialogue with an analysis of the transgressive self in dramatic literature. The author draws on Butler's... -
Theatre of Animation by Marion Baraitser
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Published in 1999, 'Theatre of Animation' is a valuable addition to the field of performance.Book InformationISBN 9789057550089Author Marion BaraitserFormat PaperbackPage Count 104 -
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Doing The Business: Boost Your Company's Fortunes by David Hall 9780753506806 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.63This is a workbook that entrepreneurs can dip into and use with their teams - giving them the confidence to grow, revitalize, reinvent and lead their businesses. Practial toolkits, tips and... -
Tragedy: The Basics Sean McEvoy 9781138798915
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview and... -
Tragedy: The Basics by Sean McEvoy 9781138798908
Booksplease Price: £110.39Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview and... -
The Contemporary Ensemble: Interviews with Theatre-Makers by Duska Radosavljevic 9780415535304
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99'Dr. Radosavljevic has an excellent and extensive grasp of her subject, and deep understanding of not only the history of these groups, but how they function, and how each contributes to the field of... -
Adorno and Modern Theatre: The Drama of the Damaged Self in Bond, Rudkin, Barker and Kane by Karoline Gritzner 9781137534460
Booksplease Price: £46.28Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book... -
Stage Histories: Post-War British Historical Drama by Pawel Schreiber 9783631663257
RRP: £50.40Booksplease Price: £45.41The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with...