Overview

The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Judith, (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction and Hurts Given and Received. Barker is also a poet and theorist of theatre, whose 'Theatre of Catastrophe' has defined a new form of tragedy for our times and has had a significant impact in the fields of literary and theatre studies.Judith tells the story from the Biblical Apocrypha of the Jewish heroine Judith and the conquering Babylonian general Holofernes. (Uncle) Vanya, A House of Correction is set on the eve of a world war. Hurts Given and Received is one of Barker's newest plays.