Shakespeare, Memory and Performance

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Peter Holland
Cambridge University Press, 2006 M11 2 - 357 pages
"Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat." In this distracted globe. Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present? This is the first collection of essays to provide a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare?s lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies.
 

Contents

Section 1
23
Section 2
43
Section 3
63
Section 4
87
Section 5
117
Section 6
135
Section 7
136
Section 8
145
Section 17
178
Section 18
192
Section 19
193
Section 20
194
Section 21
201
Section 22
202
Section 23
204
Section 24
205

Section 9
148
Section 10
150
Section 11
152
Section 12
157
Section 13
158
Section 14
168
Section 15
171
Section 16
175
Section 25
207
Section 26
237
Section 27
244
Section 28
256
Section 29
281
Section 30
305
Section 31
329

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About the author (2006)

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Department Chair, Department of Film, Television, and Theater at the University of Notre Dame.

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