- Summary
- Since the events of the Holocaust, playwrights have variously appropriated King Lear to respond to the catastrophes of modern times. With case studies on the works of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker, Sarah Kane, Forced Entertainment and Dennis Kelly, this book explores a range of theatres of catastrophe in post-war British drama and the role that King Lear has played in new forms of post-Holocaust tragedy and tragic freedom. Plays are situated in a wider critical and cultural discourse around Shakespeare and the Holocaust and the post-Auschwitz philosophical aesthetics of Theodor Adorno, whose influence on post-war playwriting remains profound. -- From publisher's website.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Ashby, Richard (Richard R. J.), author.
- Published
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
©2021
- Contents
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Machine generated contents note: 1. `After' Auschwitz
2. Why King Lear?
3. `Strange mutations': The History of King Lear `After' Auschwitz
4. `The man without pity is mad': Edward Bond's King Lears and the Dialectic of Engagement
5. `Rudkin I nothing am': Edgar, Exile and Self Re-authorship in David Rudkin's Will's Way
6. `WHAT IS THIS GOOD?': The Ethics and Aesthetics of the `Good Life' in Howard Barker's Seven Lears
7. `Thought you were dead': Dover Cliff, Death and `Ephemeral Life' in Sarah Kane's Blasted
Postscript: Writing and Performing from the Rubble: Forced Entertainment, Five Day Lear and Table Top Shakespeare: The Complete Works
8. `And I was struck still `: Nature, the Sublime and Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly's The Gods Weep.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-328) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. `After' Auschwitz -- 2. Why King Lear? -- 3. `Strange mutations': The History of King Lear `After' Auschwitz -- 4. `The man without pity is mad': Edward Bond's King Lears and the Dialectic of Engagement -- 5. `Rudkin I nothing am': Edgar, Exile and Self Re-authorship in David Rudkin's Will's Way -- 6. `WHAT IS THIS GOOD?': The Ethics and Aesthetics of the `Good Life' in Howard Barker's Seven Lears -- 7. `Thought you were dead': Dover Cliff, Death and `Ephemeral Life' in Sarah Kane's Blasted -- Postscript: Writing and Performing from the Rubble: Forced Entertainment, Five Day Lear and Table Top Shakespeare: The Complete Works -- 8. `And I was struck still `: Nature, the Sublime and Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly's The Gods Weep.
