The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays
- Author: Isabel Karremann, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
- Date Published: October 2015
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107117587
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This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.
Read more- Proposes a new account of cultural memory situated at the intersection of memory studies, performance studies and historical formalism
- Develops a new vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's dramaturgy
- Offers innovative readings of Shakespeare's history plays
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- Date Published: October 2015
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107117587
- length: 222 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: forms of remembering and forgetting in early modern England and on the Shakespearean stage
1. Media: oral report, written record and theatrical performance in 2 Henry VI and Richard III
2. Ceremony: rites of oblivion in Richard II and 1 Henry IV
3. Embodiment: Falstaff's 'shameless transformations' in Henry IV
4. Distraction: nationalist oblivion and contrapuntal sequencing in Henry V
5. Nostalgia: affecting spectacles and sceptical audiences in Henry VIII
Conclusion: Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy
Bibliography
Index.
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