Shakespeare and forgetting / Peter Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Peter, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : The Arden Shakespeare, 2023.

Summary:

"What 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 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 and considers too what we forget while watching the plays in performance, 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 forgot 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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, Genre and Gender

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:

Originally published: New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350211537

1350211532

OCLC:

1255795827

Publisher Number:

99993085110