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Title:
"The Memory of Hesione: Intertextuality and Social Amnesia in Troilus and Cressida"
Author:
Hirota, Atsuhiko.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Examines the obsession with and the suppression of Hesione's memory in Troilus and Cressida to address the issue of social memory and amnesia in Shakespeare's play. French and English summaries, 43.

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"Comment lire un texte qui n'existe pas?: Cardenio entre Cervantes et Shakespeare"
Author:
Chartier, Roger.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Traces the changing history and the varying "memory" of Cardenio, questioning the status of canonical literary works in the past. Summarizes main points from Cardenio entre Cervantès et Shakespeare (q.v.) French and English summaries, 87.

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"La mémoire théâtrale de l'avarice dans The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Burtin, Tatiana.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Examines Shylock in Merchant of Venice both as representative of the "dramatic of memory avarice" and as a revision of traditional figures of avarice fraught with contemporary economic issues. French and English summaries, 107.

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Title:
"'How every fool can play upon the world': Allegories of Reading in The Merchant of Venice and Pericles"
Author:
Newlin, James.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Sierra, New Readings of The Merchant of Venice, 109–30.
Annotation:

Argues that in Merchant of Venice, "Shakespeare depicts a . . . transition from the typological allegory to something like the [Paul] de Manian, metatextual understanding of reading itself as allegorical." Reads Pericles as "a kind of fulfillment of [Merchant of Venice's] . . . prefiguration."

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Title:
"Macbeth sous les bombes, Shakespeare sous la neige: un souvenir d'enfance d'Edward Bond"
Author:
Tuaillon, David.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Shows how Edward Bond's recollections of a performance of a 1949 performance of Macbeth are part of his "personal myth" of Shakespeare. French and English summaries, 149.

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Title:
"Locative Memory and the Circulation of Mnemic Energy in The Winter's Tale"
Author:
Engel, William E..
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Analyzes the dramaturgical effectiveness of Winter's Tale statue scene of in relation to "early modern mnemotechnic principles." French and English summaries, 183.

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Title:
"Forgetful Audiences in Julius Caesar"
Author:
Guéron, Claire.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Focuses on dramatic and meta-dramatic patterns of audience forgetfulness in Julius Caesar to investigate how they both foreground the elusiveness of memory and promote the theatre as a "training-ground for memory." French and English summaries, 197.

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Title:
"Shakespeare, lieu de mémoire"
Author:
Calvo, Clara.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Examines Shakespearean monuments and cultures of Shakespeare commemoration in the perspective of memory studies. French and English summaries, 209.

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