Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Critical introductions. Shakespeare, memory, and the early modern theatre / Zackariah Long ; Shakespeare, memory, and print culture / Amanda Watson ; Shakespeare, memory and post-colonial adaptation / Andrew J. Power ; Shakespeare, memory and the visual arts / Shearer West ; Shakespeare, memory, film and performance / Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin ; Shakespeare, memory, and new media / Rory Loughnane ; Shakespeare, memory and contemporary performance: Shakespeare in Shoreditch / Sarah Dustagheer. Part II. Tragedy. 'The raven o'er the infectious house': contagious memory in Romeo and Juliet and Othello / Evelyn Tribble ; 'Lest we remember ... our Troy, our Rome': historical and individual memory in Titus Andronicus and Trolius and Cressida / Jesús Tronch ; Fooling with tragic memory in Hamlet and King Lear / Kay Stanton ; Fatal distraction: eclipses of memory in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra / Jonathan Baldo. Part III. History. Handling memory in the Henriad: forgetting Falstaff / William E. Engel ; Henry VI to Richard III: forgetting, foreshadowing, remembering / Nicholas Grene ; Rumour's household: truth, memory, fiction, history in 2 Henry IV and All Is True / Ed Gieskes ; Cultural memories of the legal repertoire in Richard III and Richard II: criticizing rites of succession / Anita Gilman Sherman. Part IV. Comedy. Memory and subjective continuity in As You Like It and All's Well That Ends Well / Erin Minear ; Veiled memory traces in Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale / Lina Perkins Wilder ; Illyria's memorials: space, memory, and genre in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night / Susan Harlan ; 'Have you forgot your love?': material memory and forgetfulness in Love's Labour's Lost and Measure for Measure / Christine Sukic. Part V. Poetry. 'Suppose though dost defend me from what is past': Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece and the appetite for ancient memory / Andrew Hiscock ; Monumental memory and little reminders: the fantasy of being remembered by posterity / Grant Williams. Part VI. Review. The state of the art of memory and Shakespeare studies / Rebeca Helfer.
Summary:
"The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. Mapping memory in key areas of Shakespeare studies - theatre, genre, history, gender, print culture, new media, cognition and performance - the volume then goes on to look at the role of memory in individual plays. The international range of contributors explore the nature of memory in religious, political, erotic and economic terms which are not only relevant to Shakespearean times, but to the way we think and read now" -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.