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Title: SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY THEATRE
RECOLLECTION, PROPERTIES, AND CHARACTER
By: Lina Perkins Wilder
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1107463289
ISBN 13: 9781107463288
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 30 June, 2014
Pages: 230
Description: Wilder examines the excessive remembering of figures such as Romeo, Falstaff, and Hamlet as a way of defining Shakespeare's theatricality.
Synopsis: Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts. This study reinterprets the 'places' and 'objects' of the memory arts as a conceptual model for theatrical performance. While the memory arts demand a 'masculine' mental and physical discipline, recollection in Shakespeare's plays exploits the distrusted physicality of women and clowns. In Shakespeare's 'memory theatre', some mnemonic objects, such as Prospero's books, are notable by their absence; others, such as the portraits of Claudius and Old Hamlet, embody absence. Absence creates an atmosphere of unfulfilled desire. Engaging this desire, the plays create a theatrical community that remembers past performances. Combining materialist, historicist, and cognitive approaches, Wilder establishes the importance of recollection for understanding the structure of Shakespeare's plays and the social work done by performance in early modern London.
Illustrations: 7 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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