Scenes from an Execution

by Howard Barker

Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage. In her fierce determination to stay true to herself, she alienates the authorities and faces incarceration. Her younger lover Carpeta is approached to take over and seizes the assignment for himself.

Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution makes sixteenth-century Venice the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849434689
• ISBN13: 9781849434683
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.2"