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A second bête noir - of folk tale rather than literature - who Barker redeems from popular contempt, is Snow White's Wicked Stepmother. Here she is seen as a childless melancholic whose pain is sufficient justification for her cruelty. The absence of the king from the old tale is remedied in this intriguing study of marital sexuality.
Barker's recent work, now firmly part of the international repertoire, is characterized by an ever deepening investment in language and metaphor; a poet of the stage, his texts resonate at many levels of the European cultural past and illuminate its present.

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With Gertrude -The cry