Shakespeare and Memory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199674251
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 203x138x14 mm
- Weight 290 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Shakespeare and Memory explores Shakespeare's plays and poems in the light of current interest in memory studies. It sets out key features of the historical, religious, and cultural context of Shakespeare's own time.
MoreLong description:
Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience in order to explore ideas about memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems. It argues that, when Shakespeare was writing, ideas about memory were undergoing a kind of crisis, as both the technologies of memory (print, the theatre itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory underwent rapid change. And it suggests that this crisis might be mirrored in our own time, when, despite all the increasing gadgetry at our disposal, memory can still be recovered, falsified, corrupted, or wiped: only we ourselves can remember, but the workings of memory remain mysterious. Shakespeare and Memory draws on works from all stages of Shakespeare's career, with a particular focus on Hamlet, the Sonnets, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale. It considers some little things: what's Hamlet writing on? And why does Orsino think he smells violets? And it asks some big questions: how should the dead be remembered? What's the relationship between memory and identity? And is it art, above all, that enables love and beauty, memory and identity, to endure in the face of loss, time, and death?
"Why memory?" Hester Lees-Jeffries asks at the beginning of this absorbing book, but by the end of her compelling analysis it is tempting to think that there is nothing in Shakespeare's work but meditations upon, versions of, or entanglements in, memory ... Lees-Jeffries contends that "Shakespeare both engaged with and changed the ways in which people remembered", and she demonstrates this with some distinction ... Hamlet, of course, figures highly in any discussion of Shakespeare and memory, and Lees-Jeffries' readings of that fraught play are illuminating ... enlightening and thoughtful.
Table of Contents:
Note on Texts
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Art of Memory: Hamlet
Remembering Rome: Titus Andronicus, The Rape of Lucrece, Troilus and Cressida
Remembering England: The Histories, Henry VIII
Remembering the Dead: Hamlet
Remembering love: Twelfth Night, the Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida
The Memory of Things: The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet
Remembrance of Things Past: The Sonnets, The Winter's Tale
Epilogue: Remembering Shakespeare
Notes
Further Reading
Index
