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Books by Howard Barker
  | | Arguments for a Theatre(3rd Edition) by Howard Barker Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-5249-1, ISBN: 0-7190-5249-1 "Howard Barker does not accept the conventions of what he terms 'The Establishment Theatre'. These writings on the nature of theatre reject the constraints of 'objective' academic theatre criticism, but explore the collision and collusion of intellect and artistry in the creative act." |
 | | Scenes from an Execution (Oberon Modern Plays) by Howard Barker Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-468-3, ISBN: 1-84943-468-9 "The best known play from one of the United Kingdom's leading contemporary dramatists, reissued alongside a major revival at The National Theatre. Darkly humorous and provocative, Barker's play makes sixteenth-century Venice the setting for a fearless exploration of sexual politics and the timeless tension between personal ambition and moral responsibility." |
 | | Blok/Eko (Oberon Modern Plays) by Howard Barker Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-110-1, ISBN: 1-84943-110-8 "A drama about death and its status in the world. Eko, seemingly on a whim, liquidates the entire medical profession, asserting that consolation – in the form of song – is a better way with sickness than drugs or surgery. She deliberately exposes her greatest poet Tot to a life of crime, poverty, and humiliation in order to extract from him his finest work." |
 | | Howard Barker Plays One (Oberon Modern Playwrights) by Howard Barker Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2006 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-612-2, ISBN: 1-84002-612-X "Contains some of Howard Barker's most acclaimed work." |
 | | Barker Plays Six (Plays: Howard Barker) by Howard Barker Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-961-1, ISBN: 1-84002-961-7 ""(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 the eve of a war which may destroy a society, the seemi ..." |
 | | Barker Plays Nine by Howard Barker Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2017 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78319-311-0, ISBN: 1-78319-311-5 "The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. This book contains the plays A Wounded Knife, At Her Age and Hers, In the Cloth Cathedral and After Naked." |
 | | Playscript The Power of the Dog : Moments in History and Anti-history No. 109 by Howard Barker Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 1985 by Calder Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-4066-5, ISBN: 0-7145-4066-8 |
 | | Barker(Reprint) Plays Five by Howard Barker Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-886-7, ISBN: 1-84002-886-6 "Includes the plays The Last Supper, Seven Lears, Hated Nightfall and Wounds to the Face." |
 | | Death, The One and the Art of Theatre(1st Edition) by Howard Barker Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-34987-1, ISBN: 0-415-34987-7 "Death, 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 and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. Exploring the juncture between aesthetics and metaphysics, the book looks at the human experience of love and death as life a ..." |
 | | A Hard Heart The Early Hours of a Reviled Man (Playscript 119) by Howard Barker Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1992 by Calder Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-4228-7, ISBN: 0-7145-4228-8 |
 | | The Love of a Good Man and All Bleeding by Howard Barker Paperback, Published 1980 by Calder ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3767-2, ISBN: 0-7145-3767-5 |
 | | Lot and His God (Paperback) by Howard Barker 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Oberon Books Ltd, London ISBN-13: 978-1-84943-409-6, ISBN: 1-84943-409-3 "A new play from internationally acclaimed dramatist Howard Barker." |
 | | Sinclair Pipe Line Company, Petitioner, V. Archer County, Texas. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings (Paperback) by Howard Barker Paperback, Published 2011 by Gale Ecco, U.S. Supreme Court Records, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-270-43089-6, ISBN: 1-270-43089-0 |
 | | A Style and its Origins by Howard Barker, Eduardo Houth Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2007 by Oberon Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-718-1, ISBN: 1-84002-718-5 "A Style and Its Origins Eduardo Houth is the author's alter-ego. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, the author achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity. The result is an exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography. Full description" |
 | | Dead Hands by Howard Barker Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2005 by Oberon Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-464-7, ISBN: 1-84002-464-X "The new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker." |
 | | Death, The One and the Art of Theatre(1st Edition) by Howard Barker Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-34986-4, ISBN: 0-415-34986-9 "The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre." |
 | | Arguments for Theatre *See(2nd Edition) by Howard Barker Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1993 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-3998-0, ISBN: 0-7190-3998-3 "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'." |
 | | The Europeans Struggles to Love/Judith : A Parting from the Body (Playscript, 118) by Howard Barker Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 1990 by Riverrun Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-4144-0, ISBN: 0-7145-4144-3 "London 1990 1st Calder. Sm.8vo., 68pp., wraps. VG." |
 | | The Possibilities by Howard Barker Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 1988 by Calder Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-4135-8, ISBN: 0-7145-4135-4 |
 | | Last Supper A New Testament (Playscript 114) by Howard Barker Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1988 by Riverrun Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-4149-5, ISBN: 0-7145-4149-4 "Book by Barker, Howard" |
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