Editing Howard Barker (section)

{{Short description|British playwright}}
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| name = Howard Barker
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| birth_date = 28 June 1946
| birth_place = [[Camberwell]], London, England
| occupation = [[Playwright]], [[theatre director]], [[poet]]
| notableworks = ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]'', ''Victory'', ''[[The Castle (play)|The Castle]]'', ''The Possibilities'', ''The Europeans'', ''Arguments for a Theatre'', ''[[Judith: A Parting from the Body|Judith]]'', ''[[Gertrude - The Cry]]''
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'''Howard Barker'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Index entry |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=euMmoBkGYY1aPc8aabxuxg&scan=1 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS |access-date=12 October 2011}}</ref> (born 28 June 1946)<ref>{{cite web |title=Howard Barker Biography (1946-) |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/74/Howard-Barker.html |publisher=Filmreference.com |access-date=21 December 2008}}</ref> is a British [[playwright]], [[screenwriter]] and writer of [[radio drama]], [[painter]], [[poet]], and [[essayist]], writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thewrestlingschool.co.uk/barker.html |title=Howard Barker webpage on The Wrestling School website |access-date=6 August 2004 |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315050125/http://www.thewrestlingschool.co.uk/barker.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 1970s, he is best known for his plays ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]'',<ref name=Arguments4>{{cite book |last=Barker |first=Howard |title=Arguments for a Theatre |at=back cover |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |edition=fourth |date=2016 |isbn=9781783198054}}</ref><ref name=Arguments3>{{cite book |last=Barker |first=Howard |author-link=Howard Barker |title=Arguments for a Theatre |at=back cover |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRDgYQw7IlsC&pg=PT7 |publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] |location=Manchester, UK |edition=third |date=15 November 1997 |isbn=0719052491}}</ref><ref name=Death&Art>{{cite book |last=Barker |first=Howard |title=Death, the One and the Art of Theatre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSGcXtqRpRUC&q=Howard%20Barker%20%22best%20known%22&pg=PP5 |date=2004 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=0-415-34986-9 |edition=Kindle}}</ref> ''Victory'',<ref name=Death&Art/> ''[[The Castle (play)|The Castle]]'',<ref name=Death&Art/><ref name=Arguments3/> ''The Possibilities'',<ref name=Arguments3/><ref name=Arguments4/> ''The Europeans'', ''[[Judith: A Parting from the Body|Judith]]''<ref name=Arguments4/> and ''[[Gertrude – The Cry]]''<ref name=Death&Art/><ref name=Arguments4/> as well as being a founding member of, primary playwright for and stage designer for British theatre company [[The Wrestling School]].