The drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays /

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Author / Creator:Karremann, Isabel, author.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:x, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Histories.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
Memory in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare.
Memory in literature.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424208
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ISBN:9781107117587 (hardback)
1107117585 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--

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