Howard Barker: Plays Eleven: 1870; Dans le Palais Je; Deep Wives / Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl

by Howard Barker

The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose.

Barker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the real world on stage, but 1870is the first of his plays to be set in Hell. An executed traitor, whose passion for betrayal is akin to a faith, meets other victims of that terrible year in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178682969X
• ISBN13: 9781786829696
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"