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  • Howard Barker
    Howard Barker
    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 is written in a language by turns poetic and brutally mundane. The effects are disconcerting and destabilizing, as he insists tragedy must be. The twelfth and final collection of pl...
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    43,65 €

  • I Have Always Loved Older Women...
    Howard C. Barker / Howard CBarker
    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 his parents at the age of seven, serving in the military during World War II, surviving an exciting life of a starving artist in New York City, and finally becoming a successful set designer in theater, televis...
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    27,00 €

  • Howard Barker
    Howard Barker
    The 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, Distance, Critique of Pure Feeling, Irrespective, Immense Kiss, Exquisite.In Ahno, A Prince of Now, a youthful dictator is revealed as simultaneously revolutionary and reactionary, in ...
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    37,45 €

  • Arguments for a Theatre
    Howard Barker
    This 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 implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays are The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All his...
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    23,45 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    The 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, in this instance the search for the origin of the erotic undertaken by the redundant university teacher Dr Savage and his nihilistic student, Hogbin. Through all twelve Troys, Savage...
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    31,94 €

  • Scenes from an Execution
    Howard Barker
    Commissioned 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 stay true to herself, she alienates the authorities and faces incarceration. Her younger lover Carpeta is approached to take over and seizes the assignment for himself.Howard Barker’...
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    18,69 €

  • The Ecstatic Bible
    Howard Barker
    A 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 decision to abandon free will and collude with every circumstance leads them into extraordinary situations both comic and horrific. Passionate and provocative, this bible of amorali...
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    18,04 €

  • Lot and His God
    Howard Barker
    '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 café, an angel tells Lot that God wants him to flee, before the city is obliterated. However, Lot’s irresistible wife has other ideas... As the angel and Lot’s wife embark on a dangerous g...
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    18,44 €

  • Monographic Medicine
    Albion Walter Hewlett / Lewellys Franklin Barker / Milton Howard Fussell
    'Monographic Medicine: The Prognosis Of Internal Diseases' offers a detailed exploration of the prognosis of various internal ailments. Compiled by leading medical authorities Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, and Henry Leopold Elsner, this volume presents a series of in-depth monographs on specific diseases, offering valuable insights into...
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    41,49 €

  • Blok/Eko
    Howard Barker
    Howard 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 spheres.Barker’s play, BLOK/EKO, is a large-scale drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, an ageing despot, seemingly on a whim liquidates the entire medical profession,...
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    18,99 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    (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 society has put it, Barker turns Vanya’s defeat into victory and converts a play of sadness into a tragedy of desire. A House of Correction is a meditation on cause and effect. Set on...
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    33,68 €

  • Monographic Medicine
    Albion Walter Hewlett / Lewellys Franklin Barker / Milton Howard Fussell
    Monographic Medicine: Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, originally published in 1916, offers a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis of various internal diseases. Authored by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Albion Walter Hewlett, Milton Howard Fussell, and Henry Leopold Elsner, this historical medical text provides detailed insights into the diagnostic methodologies prevale...
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    40,56 €

  • Monographic Medicine
    Albion Walter Hewlett / Lewellys Franklin Barker / Milton Howard Fussell
    Monographic Medicine, Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases, authored by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Albion Walter Hewlett, and Milton Howard Fussell, offers a detailed exploration of internal diseases through the lens of functional pathology as understood in the early 20th century. This volume, originally published in 1917, presents a comprehensive survey of medical knowledg...
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    34,66 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the FaceHoward Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.Both The Last Supper and Seven Lears exemplify Barker’s way with great religious and literary stories, the first placing the willful suicide of a Christ-like prophet...
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    27,40 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    Includes the plays I Saw Myself, The Dying of Today, Found in the Ground and The Road, the House, the RoadHoward Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose.In I Saw Myself a woman’s longing to understand her compulsion to transgress the laws of her society comes into collision with the conventions of ...
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    32,67 €

  • A Style and Its Origins
    Howard Barker
    Howard Barker’s alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker’s theatre company The Wrestling School, one of many fictional identities assumed by the playwright to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design.Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and...
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    28,16 €

  • The Seduction of Almighty God
    Howard Barker
    Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the apalling discovery that he possesses the power of life and death over others, both religious and secular. Victimised by his brethren and eventually murdered by his female followers, the youth Loftu...
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    18,44 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    Contains ’The Castle, ’ ’Gertrude, ’ ’The Cry, ’ ’Animals in Paradise’ and ’13 Objects.’ ...
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    33,68 €

  • Barker
    Howard Barker
    Includes 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 challenge, unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works, and their energy, poetic language and imagination have fixed them firmly in the international repertoire.Exploring th...
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    39,14 €

  • The Fence in its Thousandth Year
    Howard Barker
    The Fence in its Thousandth Year was inspired by the long distance fence whilst it was under construction in the Gaza to separate the Palestinian and Jewish communities.Set in a world of rising frontiers and illegal immigration, The Fence uses powerful poetic language, provocative ideas and rich, dark humour to build a compelling epic about scandal in a ruling monarchy and its ...
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    18,56 €

  • Dead Hands
    Howard Barker
    A young man rushes to reach the bedside of his dying father, but arrives too late. His younger brother was present at the death, but his attitude is strangely ambiguous, and the elder brother becomes suspicious. The intentions of the dead man’s mistress are also unclear. The mourners become increasingly consumed by feverish imagining, building a powerfully tense atmosphere as t...
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    18,56 €

  • Arguments for a theatre
    Howard Barker
    There 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. ...
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    25,94 €