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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory

380 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

380 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

380 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a series of "Critical Introductions" offering an overview of memory in particular areas of Shakespeare such as theatre, print culture, visual arts, post-colonial adaptation and new media. These essays... Read more

PART I - Critical Introductions

1. Shakespeare, Memory, and the Early Modern Theatre, Zackariah Long

2. Shakespeare, Memory, and Print Culture, Amanda Watson

3. Shakespeare, Memory and Post-Colonial Adaptation, Andrew J. Power

4. Shakespeare, Memory and the Visual Arts, Shearer West

5. Shakespeare, Memory, Film and Performance, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

6. Shakespeare, Memory and New Media, Rory Loughnane

7. Shakespeare, Memory and Contemporary Performance, Sarah Dustagheer

PART II - Tragedy

8. "The Raven O’er the Infectious House": Contagious Memory in Romeo and Juliet and Othello, Evelyn Tribble

9. "Lest we remember… our Troy, our Rome": historical and individual memory in Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida, Jesús Tronch

10. Fooling wth Tragic Memory in Hamlet and King Lear, Kay Stanton

11. Fatal Distraction: Eclipses of Memory in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Jonathan Baldo

PART III - History

12. Handling Memory in the Henriad: Forgetting Falstaff, William E. Engel

13. Henry VI to Richard III: Forgetting, Foreshadowing, Remembering, Nicholas Grene

14. Rumour’s Household: Truth, Memory, Fiction, History in 2 Henry IV and All Is True, Ed Gieskes

15. Cultural Memories of the Legal Repertoire in Richard III and Richard II: Criticizing Rites of Succession, Anita Gilman Sherman

PART IV - Comedy

16. ‘Memory and Subjective Continuity in As You Like It and All’s Well That Ends Well, Erin Minear

17. Veiled Memory Traces in Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale, Lina Perkins Wilder

18. Illyria’s Memorials: Space, Memory, and Genre in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Susan Harlan

19. "Have you forgot your love?": Material Memory and Forgetfulness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Measure for Measure, Christine Sukic

PART V - Poetry

20. "Suppose thou dost defend me from what is past": Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece and the appetite for ancient memory, Andrew Hiscock

21. Monumental Memory and Little Reminders; the Fantasy of Being Remembered by Posterity, Grant Williams

PART VI - Review

22. The State of the Art of Memory and Shakespeare Studies, Rebeca Helfer

Bibliography

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