SHAKESPEARE, MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE By Peter Holland - Hardcover **Excellent**
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
- ISBN-10
- 0521863805
- Genre
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- ISBN
- 9780521863803
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521863805
ISBN-13
9780521863803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63748567
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
378 Pages
Publication Name
Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
Language
English
Subject
Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-026057
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The collection is impressive in its scope and contains some excellent essays that suggest new and vital areas of inquiry...the volume poetically conveys the anxiety attendant upon studies of memory." -Elizabeth Klett, Early Theater, 'Shakespeare, Memory and Performance offers a timely contribution to Shakespeare studies which could inspire a deeper engagement with performance studies in the field at large. … The results are both fruitful and suggestive. … these essays open a subject whose introduction is long overdue.' Review of English Studies, 'Shakespeare, Memory and Performance offers a timely contribution to Shakespeare studies which could inspire a deeper engagement with performance studies in the field at large. ... The results are both fruitful and suggestive. ... these essays open a subject whose introduction is long overdue.' Review of English Studies
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
792.9/5
Table Of Content
Foreword Stanley Wells; Introduction Peter Holland; Part I. Shakespeare's Performances of Memory: 1. Speaking what we feel about King Lear Bruce R. Smith; 2. Shakespeare's memorial aesthetics John J. Joughin; 3. Priamus is dead: memorial repetition in Marlowe and Shakespeare Anthony B. Dawson; Part II. Editing Shakespeare and the Performance of Memory: 4. 'Wrought with things forgotten': memory and performance in editing Macbeth Michael Cordner; 5. Citing Shakespeare Margaret Jane Kidnie; Part III. Performance Memory: Costumes and Bodies: 6. Shopping in the archives: material memories Barbara Hodgdon; 7. 'Her first remembrance from the Moor': actors and the materials of memory Carol Chillington Rutter; 8. On the gravy train: Shakespeare, memory and forgetting Peter Holland; Part IV. Reconstructing Shakespearean Performance: 9. Remembering Beigner's Rosalind: As You Like It on the file in 1936 Russell Jackson; 10. Shakespeare exposed: outdoor performance and ideology, 1880-1940 Michael Dobson; Part V. Performance Memory: Technologies and the Museum: 11. Fond record: remembering theatre in the digital age W. B. Worthen; 12. The Shakespeare revolution will not be televised: staging the media apparatus Robert Shaughnessy; 13. Memory, performance, and the idea of the museum Dennis Kennedy; Afterword Stephen Orgel.
Synopsis
'Remember thee� Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.' Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present� This is the first collection of essays to provide a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare's lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies., 'Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.' Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present? This collection of essays, first published in 2006, provides a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare's lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies., Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, first published in 2006, is a collection of essays which provide a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters, by leading Shakespeare critics, explore a wide range of topics, including Shakespeare's own use of memory and memories evoked by costumes and props., "Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat." In this distracted globe. Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present? This is the first collection of essays to provide a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare's lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies., Innovative collection by leading Shakespeare scholars, bringing together memory and performance for the first time.
LC Classification Number
PR3091 .S366 2006
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