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Author Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr.

Title Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster / Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 50
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 50.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-179) and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Memory in literature.
Memory in literature.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
English drama.
Chronological Term 17th century
1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Sullivan, Garrett A. Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521848423 (OCoLC)60371183
ISBN 0511132603 (electronic book)
9780511132605 (electronic book)
0511132069
9780511132063
9780511484032 (ebook)
0511484038 (ebook)
9780521848428 (hardback)
0521848423 (hardback)
9780511200380
0511200382

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