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Shakespeare's Memory Theatre - Recollection, Properties, and Character (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Memory Theatre - Recollection, Properties, and Character (Paperback)
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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.
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