Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 50) - Hardcover

Sullivan Jr, Garrett A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521848423 ISBN 13: 9780521848428

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Examining sixteenth and seventeenth century conceptions of memory and forgetting, this study demonstrates their importance to the drama and culture of the time. Garrett A. Sullivan discusses memory and forgetting in terms of which a variety of behaviors--from seeking salvation to pursuing vengeance to succumbing to desire--are conceptualized. Focusing on works such as Macbeth, Hamlet, Dr. Faustus and The Duchess of Malfi, he reveals memory and forgetting to be dynamic cultural forces central to early modern understandings of embodiment, selfhood and social practice.

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About the Author

Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities/Folger Shakespeare Library long-term fellowship, he is the author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage, is on the editorial board for Renaissance Drama, and is Associate Editor of Shakespeare Studies. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Marston, Spenser and others in a number of journals including ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama, and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600 (1999) and The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521848423
• ISBN 13: 9780521848428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196