Barker Plays Three

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0061053295

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Incarnations by Clive Barker Pdf

Legions of Clive Barker fans will relish three early works from the wicked imagination of one of the best-known fantasy/horror writers of the decade. Incarnations is a cross-disciplinary marvel, a great, glorious feast of the imagination taking us on a journey through wildly varied theatrical and emotional terrains, from the pain and intrigue of domestic transgressions to the monstrous horrors wrought by war; from lustful garden liasons to subterranean cannibalism. Barker uses unpredictable rhythms that draw less from theatrical convention and more from life itself, with apocalyptic spectacle and intimate reality sharing the stage as equal and sometimes indistinguishable partners. The three works that make up Incarnations - Colossus; Frankenstein in Love, or the Life of Death; and The History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life -- combine the shock and magic and heartbreak that has made Barker's unique vision a compelling force in all the media he has touched.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019836001

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Forms of Heaven by Clive Barker Pdf

Author : Howard Barker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849433631

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Barker: Plays Three by Howard Barker Pdf

Includes the plays Claw, Ursula, He Stumbled and The Love of a Good Man The plays in this volume range over twenty years, beginning with Barker's first major work for the stage, Claw, a study of urban discontent and political impotence, developed over three stylistically contrasting acts. Its terrible conclusion marked the debut of a vivid dramatic imagination. In Ursula Barker's engagement with the pains of the past, and his way of reinvigorating ancient arguments reaches a high point in his treatment of the legend of St Ursula and the martyrdom of 11,000 virgins, where the virtues of celibacy and marriage are set against the catastrophic passion of a woman described as a 'perfect liar'. Barker's scrutiny of the body and its complex meanings is never more intense than in He Stumbled, the tragedy of a celebrated anatomist whose last dissection becomes his own. The body as a site of political and personal investment is also at the heart of The Love of a Good Man, an early work set on the empty battlefields of the Great War, where the burial of the dead becomes a pretext for private ambition as well as national grief.

Author : Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030286996

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Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama by Alireza Fakhrkonandeh Pdf

This 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 and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).

Author : Eric Salmon
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0838632289

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Granville Barker, a Secret Life by Eric Salmon Pdf

Author : Harley Granville Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1679588354

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Three Plays by Harley Granville Barker Pdf

Harley Granville-Barker was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. After early success as an actor in the plays of George Bernard Shaw he increasingly turned to directing and was a major figure in British theatre in the Edwardian and inter-war periods.

Author : Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:747742512

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Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete ; The Voysey Inheritance ; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker Pdf

Author : Paul Howard Musser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512818208

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James Nelson Barker, 1784-1858 by Paul Howard Musser Pdf

Life of the first champion of American independence in literature and art and a Philadelphia political figure, with a reprint of what is considered the best American play written before 1825.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007358298

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Sacrament by Clive Barker Pdf

A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the traumatic events of his childhood.

Author : James Reynolds,Andy W. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408184257

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Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe by James Reynolds,Andy W. Smith Pdf

Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality that it earned continuous Arts Council funding for nearly 20 years. Wrestling with Catastrophe challenges existing ways of reading Barker's theatre practice and plays and provides new ways into his work. It brings together conversations with theatre makers from in and outside The Wrestling School, with first-hand accounts of the company's practice, and a selection of critical readings. The book's combining of testimony from key Wrestling School practitioners with alternative practical perspectives, and with analysis by both established and emerging scholars, ensures that a spectrum of understanding emerges that is rich in both breadth and depth. In its consideration of the full range of Barker's aesthetic concerns - including text, direction, design, acting, narrative form, poetry, appropriation, painting, photography, electronic media, technology, puppetry, and theatre space - the volume makes a radical re-evaluation of Barker's theatre possible.

Author : John Brannigan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719065771

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Pat Barker by John Brannigan Pdf

This book offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyzes the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged.

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:363304348

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Three Plays. with Introd. by H. Granville Barker by Maurice Maeterlinck Pdf

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 9780415315319

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The Theatre of Howard Barker by Charles Lamb Pdf

First published in 1997 as Howard Barker's theatre of seduction. This second, fully revised, edition includes a new interview with Barker, a revised introduction, an updated bibliography and a full production chronology.

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017386124

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Incarnations by Clive Barker Pdf

Contains three of Clive Barkers's best-known plays, Colossus, The History of the Devil and Frankenstein in Love. Echoing Barker's major themes - the nature of good and evil, pain and beauty, death and transformation - these plays offer an insight into the imagination of the playwright.

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135304522

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Howard Barker's Theatre of Seduction by Charles Lamb Pdf

Study of the British playwright, Howard Barker which arose from Lamb's idea that current performance theories and production techniques do not work with Barker's plays. Lamb sets Barker's work against those ideas expounded by Edward Bond and the world of deconstruction and postmodern thought. Nine of Barker's drawings are also reproduced.