The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays
Author:   Isabel Karremann (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   222
Publication Date:   20 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Isabel Karremann (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781107117587


ISBN 10:   1107117585
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   20 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the Würzburg 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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