Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: King Lear ‘After’ Auschwitz 1
5. Chapter 1 ‘After’ Auschwitz 26
6. Chapter 2 Why King Lear? 65
7. Chapter 3 ‘Strange mutations’: The History of King Lear ‘After’ Auschwitz 96
8. Chapter 4 ‘The man without pity is mad’: Edward Bond’s King Lears and the Dialectic of Engagement 143
9. Chapter 5 ‘Rudkin I nothing am’: Edgar, Exile and Self Re-authorship in David Rudkin’s Will’s Way Introduction 172
10. Chapter 6 ‘WHAT IS THIS GOOD?’: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the ‘Good Life’ in Howard Barker’s Seven Lears 203
11. Chapter 7 ‘Thought you were dead’: Dover Cliff, Death and ‘Ephemeral Life’ in Sarah Kane’s Blasted 234
12. Chapter 8 ‘And I was struck still . . .’: Nature, the Sublime and Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep 276
13. Conclusion: ‘Storm Still’ 303
14. Bibliography 306
15. Index 329