A Passion in Six Days ; Downchild
Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
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The last taboo
Author: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1847796753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on ‘hirsutism’, or fetishistic pornography on ‘hairy’ women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as ‘self-evidently’ too silly or too mad to write about. Using a wide range of thinking from gender theory, queer theory, critical and literary theory, history, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy
Author: Sean Carney
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-02-13
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1442663510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work. Carney’s attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.
The Theatre of Howard Barker
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 041531531X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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.
Arguments for a Theatre
Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997-11-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780719052491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoward Barker, author of over thirty plays, has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays include The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All of his plays are emotionally highly charged, intellectually stimulating and far removed from the theatrical conventions of what he terms ‘the Establishment Theatre’. These fragments, essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre likewise reject the constraints of ‘objective’ academic theatre criticism. They explore the collision (and collusion) of intellect and artistry in the creative act. This book is more than a collection of essays: it is a cultural manifesto for Barker’s own ‘Theatre of Catastrophe’.
Cold War Literature
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Publisher: Routledge
Published:
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1134272553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0470751479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
The Theatre Guide
Author: Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-07-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1408103133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
Howard Barker: Politics and Desire
Author: David I Rabey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-05-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1349199109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStaging the Past in the Age of Thatcher
Author: Anthony P. Pennino
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3319966863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel – who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin’s concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: “the history we haven’t had”. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.
