The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays
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The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays

The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays

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Isabel Karremann (Author)  

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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. 1 Halftones, unspecified
Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the Wuerzburg University, Germany. She is the co-editor of Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe (with Cornel Zwierlein and Inga Mai Groote, 2012), Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration (with Erica Sheen, 2016) and Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England (with Jonathan Baldo, forthcoming).
  • Contributor: Isabel Karremann
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107117587
  • Number of Pages: 222
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x14mm
  • Packaged Weight: 460
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2015-10-20
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the Wuerzburg University, Germany. She is the co-editor of Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe (with Cornel Zwierlein and Inga Mai Groote, 2012), Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration (with Erica Sheen, 2016) and Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England (with Jonathan Baldo, forthcoming).

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