A Style and Its Origins

Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, one of many fictional identities assumed by the playwright to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design.Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity, though objectivity is scarcely the sole intention. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in a mere autobiography. Barker/Houth's A Style and its Origins is very much a literary creation; it is also a totally original document and a rich history of the dramatist and his aesthetic.

• | Author: Howard Barker
• | Publisher: Oberon Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 150 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1840027185
• | ISBN-13: 9781840027181