King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama

Author:   Richard Ashby
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Richard Ashby
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474477994


ISBN 10:   1474477992
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

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"Ashby's debut monograph is a highly impressive manifestation of a deeply informed and considered analytical voice. This book makes important contact points between the most fundamental and searching questions about power, mortality and responsibility in the work of Shakespeare and in the work of major modern British dramatists, and in the world at large. It is properly urgent reading'--David Ian Rabey, Aberystwyth University An intellectually and politically compelling testament to the power of King Lear to fire the imagination of the boldest post-war British dramatists, and a richly rewarding study of the extraordinary plays they forged in the light of Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece.-- ""Kiernan Ryan, University of Cambridge and the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon"" Ashby's brilliant book shares with its foundational text a radical desire to extend the scale of what can be achieved. Vast in scope, powerful in execution, deeply scholarly [and] thoroughly theorized [...] ""King Lear"" 'After' Auschwitz is an exceptional achievement, permanently changing and revitalizing our assumptions about the landscape of responses to Shakespeare's inexhaustible play [...] [a] breathtaking accomplishment--Peter Holland ""Comparative Drama"" Out of the entire Shakespearian canon King Lear emerges as both a provoking guide and goad within contemporary British drama as a vehicle for productive appropriation by dramatists. Like a current day Edgar, Richard Ashby takes his readers from the 'chalky bourn' of Dover Cliff to the gates of Auschwitz and beyond in an authoritative study of the ways in which figures as diverse as Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Tim Etchells, Sarah Kane and Dennis Kelly have reconstituted this puzzling and provoking classical tragedy. King Lear 'After' Auschwitz will rightly take up a prominent place within the growing body of work in Shakespeare studies devoted to the practice of adaptation and appropriation.--Graham Saunders, University of Birmingham"


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Richard Ashby, Visiting Research Fellow at Senate House Library, Senate House Library.

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