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The first volume in Oberon's new edition of Howard Barker's plays, this includes some of his most acclaimed work. A forthright discussion of the role of the artist in society, "Scenes from an Execution" is set in the aftermath of the Battle of Lepanto. "Victory" follows the story of a widow seeking to reinvent herself in the aftermath of the civil war. "The Europeans" takes place in 1683 after the siege of Vienna and is a tragic meditation on the everlasting conflict between Christianity and Islam. "The Possibilities" are ten short plays that weigh the advantages of surrender and resistance in a chaotic world...

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Barker: Plays One
• Author: Howard Barker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781840026122
• ISBN: 184002612X
• ID: 04441872
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 131 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. April 2006

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