Shakespeare, Memory and Performance

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Edited by Peter HollandCambridge University Press, 11/2/2006EAN 9780521863803, ISBN10: 0521863805Hardcover, 378 pages, 22.8 x 16.1 x 3.1 cmLanguage: English'Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.' Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present? This collection of essays, first published in 2006, provides a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare's lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies.Foreword Stanley WellsIntroduction Peter HollandPart I. Shakespeare's Performances of Memory1. Speaking what we feel about King Lear Bruce R. Smith2. Shakespeare's memorial aesthetics John J. Joughin3. Priamus is deadmemorial repetition in Marlowe and Shakespeare Anthony B. DawsonPart II. Editing Shakespeare and the Performance of Memory4. 'Wrought with things forgotten'memory and performance in editing Macbeth Michael Cordner5. Citing Shakespeare Margaret Jane KidniePart III. Performance MemoryCostumes and Bodies6. Shopping in the archivesmaterial memories Barbara Hodgdon7. 'Her first remembrance from the Moor'actors and the materials of memory Carol Chillington Rutter8. On the gravy trainShakespeare, memory and forgetting Peter HollandPart IV. Reconstructing Shakespearean Performance9. Remembering Beigner's RosalindAs You Like It on the file in 1936 Russell Jackson10. Shakespeare exposedoutdoor performance and ideology, 1880–1940 Michael DobsonPart V. Performance MemoryTechnologies and the Museum11. Fond recordremembering theatre in the digital age W. B. Worthen12. The Shakespeare revolution will not be televisedstaging the media apparatus Robert Shaughnessy13. Memory, performance, and the idea of the museum Dennis KennedyAfterword Stephen Orgel.'Shakespeare, Memory and Performance offers a timely contribution to Shakespeare studies which could inspire a deeper engagement with performance studies in the field at large. ... The results are both fruitful and suggestive. ... these essays open a subject whose introduction is long overdue.' Review of English Studies Show more