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OverviewWhat does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book explores Shakespeare’s dramaturgy, from characters who forget what they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350211537ISBN 10: 1350211532 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 09 February 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. People Forgetting 'My memory is tired' 'I have forgot his name' 'What was I about to say?' 2. Forgiving and Forgetting / Forgetting Oneself 3. Forgetting Forgetting Forgetting about forgetting Remembering forgetting Not forgetting Remembering and forgetting Early Modern forgetting 4. Forgetting and Genre 5. Forgetting People 6. Forgetting Performance Needing forgetfulness Forgetting in performance Forgetting the plot Resisting performance as loss Not-quite-forgetting performance 7.Shakespeare Forgetting / Forgetting Shakespeare Shakespeare forgetting Forgetting Shakespeare Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA deep and wide-ranging meditation on Shakespeare and the arts of amnesia by a master scholar at the peak of his game. - James J. Marino, Cleveland State, USA A deep and wide-ranging meditation on Shakespeare and the arts of amnesia by a master scholar at the peak of his game. -- James J. Marino, Cleveland State, USA Author InformationPeter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books, editions and collections, was Editor of Shakespeare Survey for 19 years and is General Editor on series amounting to over 60 published volumes. He is Chair of the International Shakespeare Association. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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