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Memory and forgetting in English Renaissance drama : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster /
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 oc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.