Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster /

Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sullivan, Garrett A.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 50 Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 50.
Subject:	Memory in literature. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. English drama. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Memory in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11811939

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ISBN:	0511132603 9780511132605 0511132069 9780511132063 9780511484032 0511484038 9780521848428 0521848423 9780511200380 0511200382
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-179) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This fascinating study examines sixteenth and seventeenth century conceptions of memory and forgetting, and their importance for both early modern culture and the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Webster. The author shows how early modern playwrights understood 'self-forgetting' as the occasion for dramatic experiments in representing human behaviour and identity.
Other form:	Print version: Sullivan, Garrett A. Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521848423

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: planting oblivion; 1 Embodying oblivion; 2 "Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her": forgetting and desire in All's Well That Ends Well; 3 "If he can remember": spiritual self-forgetting and Dr. Faustus; 4 "My oblivion is a very Antony"; 5 Sleep, conscience and fame in The Duchess of Malfi; 6 Coda: "Wrought with things forgotten"; Notes; Index.