Richard Ashby is Lecturer in Theatre, Drama and Performance 1560-Present in the English Department at King’s College London. He is the author of King Lear ‘After’ Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama (EUP, 2021). He is also the author of various articles on Shakespeare and his afterlives, which have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, History Today, Shakespeare Bulletin, Comparative Drama, Cahiers Élisabéthains, Adaptation, Contemporary Theatre Review, Textual Practice, and Shakespeare. He has work forthcoming in the Shakespeare Interntional Yearbook and in a new collection on Shakespeare and exile for the ACMRS press. He is currently finishing his new monograph, Shakespeare and Holocaust Writing: Testimony, Literature, Philosophy, for OUP.
Richard spoke at Shakespeare and Presentism and the Colloquium on Richard II in 2018, and at Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind in 2024. He also chaired panels at the Shakespeare in Philosophy events on Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare in 2019, and on the Frankfurt School and Shakespeare in 2022.
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