Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did
people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now?
Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern
sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and
cognitive psychology and neuroscience in order to explore ideas
about memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems. It argues that, when
Shakespeare was writing, ideas about memory were undergoing a kind
of crisis, as both the technologies of memory (print, the theatre
itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory
underwent rapid change. And it suggests that this crisis might be
mirrored in our own time, when, despite all the increasing gadgetry
at our disposal, memory can still be recovered, falsified,
corrupted, or wiped: only we ourselves can remember, but the
workings of memory remain mysterious. Shakespeare and Memory draws
on works from all stages of Shakespeare's career, with a particular
focus on Hamlet, the Sonnets, Twelfth Night, and The Winter's Tale.
It considers some little things: what's Hamlet writing on? And why
does Orsino think he smells violets? And it asks some big
questions: how should the dead be remembered? What's the
relationship between memory and identity? And is it art, above all,
that enables love and beauty, memory and identity, to endure in the
face of loss, time, and death?
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