Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama: From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays

Fakhrkonandeh, Alireza

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).  

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Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2019-11-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030286989

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28699-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 151