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Richard Ashby
A scholar of theatre and Shakespeare, he writes about how classic drama is reshaped by the memory of catastrophe and the politics of the modern world. His work brings literary criticism, performance history, and cultural memory into the same conversation.
2 Audiobooks
The vertigo hook
by Richard Ashby
Master Race
by Richard Ashby
About the author
Richard Ashby is a Lecturer in Theatre, Drama and Performance 1560–Present in the English Department at King’s College London. His research focuses on Shakespeare and modern drama, especially the ways classic texts are reworked after historical trauma.
He is the author of King Lear ‘After’ Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has also written articles on Shakespeare and his afterlives, and has been involved in research projects exploring Holocaust memory, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in contemporary performance.
His academic profile suggests a critic interested in how theatre carries history forward: not as something settled, but as something audiences keep returning to, rethinking, and arguing with.