Shakespeare and Memory.

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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 thetechnologies of memory (print, the theatre itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory underwent rapid ch.

Cover; Contents; Note on Texts; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction: Why Memory?; 2. The Art of Memory: Hamlet; 3. Remembering Rome: Titus Andronicus, The Rape of Lucrece, Troilus and Cressida; 4. Remembering England: The Histories, Henry VIII; 5. Remembering the Dead: Hamlet; 6. Remembering Love: Twelfth Night, the Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida; 7. The Memory of Things: The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet; 8. Remembrance of Things Past: The Sonnets, The Winter's Tale; 9. Epilogue: Remembering Shakespeare; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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