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Shakespeare and memory / Hester Lees-Jeffries. by Series: Oxford Shakespeare topics
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type:  Text; Format:
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Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Basingstoke, Hampshire ; 2013
Dissertation note: Why memory?” Hester Lees-Jeffries asks at the beginning of this absorbing book, but by the end of her compelling analysis it is tempting to think that there is nothing in Shakespeare’s work but meditations upon, versions of, or entanglements in, memory. Lees-Jeffries thoroughly reads the entire works through various models of recollection (and forgetting), and along the way takes the reader on a quick spin through contemporary thinking about the early modern period, from work on manuscript and material culture to considerations of nationalism, sensory responses to text and performative affect. Memory studies has proven to be a rich vein of investigation for many disciplines over the past 20 years, and Shakespeare criticism has had its key moments in this area too, from work considering rehearsal practice to investigations of history and national identity. Lees-Jeffries contends that “Shakespeare both engaged with and changed the ways in which people remembered”, and she demonstrates this with some distinction.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (3)Call number: 822.33 L.H.S 2013, ...
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Shakespeare and the eighteenth century / Michael Caines. by Series: Oxford Shakespeare topics
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Dissertation note: This book considers the impact and influence of Shakespeare on writing of the eighteenth century, and also how eighteenth-century Shakespeare scholarship influenced how we read Shakespeare today.
The most influential English actor of the eighteenth century, David Garrick, could hail Shakespeare as 'the god of our idolatry', yet perform an adaptation of King Lear with a happy ending, add a dying speech to Macbeth, and remove the puns from Romeo and Juliet. Garrick's friend Samuel Johnson thought of Shakespeare as 'above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature'. Voltaire thought he was a sublime genius without taste. The Bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, meanwhile, could be found arguing with Johnson's biographer James Boswell over whether Shakespeare or Milton was the greater poet.
Other title: - Shakespeare and the 18th century
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (3)Call number: 813.54 C.M.S 2013, ...
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