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Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

Summary, etc: Sullivan analyses dramatic works such as 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', 'Dr. Faustus' and 'The Duchess of Malfi'. In doing so, he reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.