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This book does not prescribe, it offers a structure for perceptions, centred on the plays and poems of Howard Barker (born in London, 1946). This book, and Barker’s plays and poems, are defiant of prescriptive ideologies, which depend upon the suspension of experience in the face of ideas. It rejoices in the dismantling of prescriptive and conventional structures from the inside, until reaching the essence of the self.
I’ll take you I’ll hold your throat I will And vomit I will tolerate Over my shirt Over my wrists Your bile Your juices I’ll be your guide And whistler in the dark Cougher over filthy words And all known sentiments recycled for this house
I honour you too much To paste you with what you already know so from the 1st Prologue to The Bite of the Night
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Notes
Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and its Double (London: Calder & Boyars, 1970) p. 66.
Bettina L. Knapp, in Kenneth Steele White (ed.), Savage Comedy: Structures of Humour (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1978) pp. 18
Kenneth Steele White, Savage Comedy Since King Ubu (Washington: University Press of America, 1980) pp. 8
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Rabey, D.I. (1989). Lubricating Progress Through the Forbidden. In: Howard Barker: Politics and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19910-5_1
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