The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory

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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a series of "Critical Introductions" offering an overview of memory in particular areas of Shakespeare such as theatre, print culture, visual arts, post-colonial adaptation and new media. These essays both introduce the topic but also explore specific areas such as the way in which Shakespeare’s representation in the visual arts created a national and then a global poet. The entries then develop into more specific studies of the genre of Shakespeare, with sections on Tragedy, History, Comedy and Poetry, which include insightful readings of specific key plays. The book ends with a state of the art review of the area, charting major contributions to the debate, and illuminating areas for further study. The international range of contributors explore the nature of memory in religious, political, emotional and economic terms which are not only relevant to Shakespearean times, but to the way we think and read now. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Critical introductions 1 Shakespeare, memory, and the early modern theatre 2 Shakespeare, memory, and print culture 3 Shakespeare, memory and post-colonial adaptation 4 Shakespeare, memory and the visual arts 5 Shakespeare, memory, film and performance 6 Shakespeare, memory, and new media 7 Shakespeare, memory and contemporary performance: Shakespeare in Shoreditch Part II Tragedy 8 ‘The raven o’er the infectious house’: contagious memory in Romeo and Juliet and Othello 9 ‘Lest we remember … our Troy, our Rome’: historical and individual memory in Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida 10 Fooling with tragic memory in Hamlet and King Lear 11 Fatal distraction: eclipses of memory in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra Part III History 12 Handling memory in the Henriad: forgetting Falstaff 13 Henry VI to Richard III: forgetting, foreshadowing, remembering 14 Rumour’s household: truth, memory, fiction, history in 2 Henry IV and All Is True 15 Cultural memories of the legal repertoire in Richard III and Richard II: criticizing rites of succession Part IV Comedy 16 Memory and subjective continuity in As You Like It and All’s Well That Ends Well 17 Veiled memory traces in Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale 18 Illyria’s memorials: space, memory, and genre in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night 19 ‘Have you forgot your love?’: material memory and forgetfulness in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Measure for Measure Part V Poetry 20 ‘Suppose thou dost defend me from what is past’: Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece and the appetite for ancient memory 21 Monumental memory and little reminders: the fantasy of being remembered by posterity Part VI Review 22 The state of the art of memory and Shakespeare studies Bibliography Index