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Howard Barker: Politics and Desire

An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87

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  • © 1989

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  1. D. Rabey
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Keywords

  • British drama
  • drama
  • dramatist
  • Europe
  • poetry
  • theatre
  • British and Irish Literature

About this book

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 influence have extended to a position of international eminence.

Reviews

'Rabey mobilizes powerful metaphors, almost as responses in kind to Barker's lines, in sentences that have the quality of muscular poetry... At the border between criticism and theatre, Politics and Desire stands opposite Brecht's Messingkauf Dialogues, challenging critical boundaries of theatre, and inviting us to experience the catastrophic throes of tragic transformation.' - James D. Balestrieri, Theatre Three

'Rabey's criticism in these books offers a meditation, a critical and lyrical vision, not merely of Barker's theatre but of theatre's place in a 21st-century culture' - George Hunka, Superfluities: A Journal

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Howard Barker: Politics and Desire

  • Book Subtitle: An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969-87

  • Authors: D. Rabey

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57740-4Published: 30 January 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 302

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