Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death

Part One. A Style and its Contexts

1. Gifts of Loss: An Introduction to Barker’s Writing and Theatre
David Ian Rabey

2. ‘The ecstasy of vanishing meaning’
David Ian Rabey

Part Two. Plays and Productions

3. Intimacy with the Unforgivable
David Ian Rabey

4. Cultural Re-Fashionings and Shakespearean Negotiations
David Ian Rabey

5. Separation, Sacrifice and Sainthood
David Ian Rabey

6. Facing the Wound
David Ian Rabey

7. Infinite Reversibility
David Ian Rabey

8. Wrestling with God
David Ian Rabey

9. Servility and Servitude
David Ian Rabey

10. The Boundary and Beyond
David Ian Rabey

11. Inconclusion: Consolations in Extremity
David Ian Rabey

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Environment, general, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature