The drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays /

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 theater developed to engage with the mem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karremann, Isabel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Histories. Memory in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: forms of remembering and forgetting in early modern England and on the Shakespearean stage; 1. Media: oral report, written record and theatrical performance in 2 Henry VI and Richard III; 2. Ceremony: rites of oblivion in Richard II and 1 Henry IV; 3. Embodiment: Falstaff's 'shameless transformations' in Henry IV; 4. Distraction: nationalist oblivion and contrapuntal sequencing in Henry V; 5. Nostalgia: affecting spectacles and sceptical audiences in Henry VIII; Conclusion: Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy; Bibliography; Index.