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Shakespeare's memory theatre : recollection, properties, and character / Lina Perkins Wilder.

  • Accession number

    83443339

  • Class

    Reading Room - 48.01/WIL

  • ISBN

    9780521764551 (hbk.), 0521764556 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    vii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliography and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: "I do remember": the nurse, the apothecary, and Romeo -- Wasting memory: competing mnemonics in the Henry plays -- "Baser matter": and mnemonic pedagogy in Hamlet -- "The handkerchief, my mind misgives": false past in Othello -- "Flaws and starts": fragmented recollection in Macbeth -- Mnemonic control and watery disorder in The tempest. Uk-SuSCL Summary, etc: Lina Wilder argues that the 'places' and 'objects' of the memory arts inform Shakespeare's conception of theatre, and vice versa. Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts.