Shakespeare And Forgetting

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350211508
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Forgetting written by Peter Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.

Author : Hester Lees-Jeffries
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019165597X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Memory written by Hester Lees-Jeffries and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evoking (and Forgetting) Shakespeare written by Peter Brook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brook's meditation on performing Shakespeare today.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521863805
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Memory and Performance written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, first published in 2006, brings together memory and performance.

Author : Jonathan Baldo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136497684
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory in Shakespeare's Histories written by Jonathan Baldo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare’s later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic breaks in its history and in the fashioning of a sense of nationhood. For plays ostensibly designed to recover the past and make it available to the present, they devote remarkable attention to the ways in which states and individuals alike passively neglect or actively suppress the past and rewrite history. Two broad and related historical developments caused remembering and forgetting to occupy increasingly prominent and equivocal positions in Shakespeare’s history plays: an emergent nationalism and the Protestant Reformation. A growth in England’s sense of national identity, constructed largely in opposition to international Catholicism, caused historical memory to appear a threat as well as a support to the sense of unity. The Reformation caused many Elizabethans to experience a rupture between their present and their Catholic past, a condition that is reflected repeatedly in the history plays, where the desire to forget becomes implicated with traumatic loss. Both of these historical shifts resulted in considerable fluidity and uncertainty in the values attached to historical memory and forgetting. Shakespeare’s histories, in short, become increasingly equivocal about the value of their own acts of recovery and recollection.

Author : Lina Perkins Wilder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521764556
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Memory Theatre written by Lina Perkins Wilder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilder examines the excessive remembering of figures such as Romeo, Falstaff, and Hamlet as a way of defining Shakespeare's theatricality.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare forget-me-nots, a text book of Shakespeare quotations [selected by E.K.H.]. written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Garrison
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 0198801092
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Afterlife written by John Garrison and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.

Author : Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511200380
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama written by Garrett A. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study examines sixteenth and seventeenth century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance for both early modern culture and the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster. The author shows how early modern playwrights understood 'self-forgetting' as the occasion for dramatic experiments in representing human behaviour and identity.

Author : Philip Armstrong
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415207218
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis written by Philip Armstrong and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the complex and fruitful relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory.