Description: Shakespeare's Memory Theatre: Recollection, Properties, and Character [Paperback] Wilder, Lina Perkins Product Overview Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts. This study reinterprets the ‘places' and ‘objects' of the memory arts as a conceptual model for theatrical performance. While the memory arts demand a ‘masculine' mental and physical discipline, recollection in Shakespeare's plays exploits the distrusted physicality of women and clowns. In Shakespeare's ‘memory theatre', some mnemonic objects, such as Prospero's books, are notable by their absence; others, such as the portraits of Claudius and Old Hamlet, embody absence. Absence creates an atmosphere of unfulfilled desire. Engaging this desire, the plays create a theatrical community that remembers past performances. Combining materialist, historicist, and cognitive approaches, Wilder establishes the importance of recollection for understanding the structure of Shakespeare's plays and the social work done by performance in early modern London. Read more Details Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (November 6, 2014) Language : English Paperback : 230 pages ISBN-10 : 1107463289 ISBN-13 : 88 Item Weight : 12.8 ounces Dimensions : 5.99 x 0.58 x 9.02 inches We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 1107463289
ISBN10: 1107463289
ISBN13: 9781107463288
EAN: 9781107463288
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Brand: Cambridge University Press
GTIN: 09781107463288
Number of Pages: 230 Pages
Publication Name: Shakespeare's Memory Theatre : Recollection, Properties, and Character
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Shakespeare, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Lina Perkins Wilder
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
