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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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Dr Richard Ashby obtained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London and is now a Visiting Research Fellow at Senate House Library and an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research concentrates on the afterlives of Shakespeare and other early modern writers and dramatists, particularly in periods of crisis and catastrophe. He has published articles in Shakespeare, Textual Practice, Adaptation, Contemporary Theatre Review, Cahiers Élisabéthains and Comparative Drama and has spoken at various national and international conferences. He is currently working on the presence and meanings of Shakespeare in Holocaust testimony.

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