This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.
This essay examines the productivity of Anat Pick's notion of the creaturely for rethinking the history of human/animal relations. Identifying the Romantic period as a formative epoch for this purpose, it discusses the ways in which poems by Christopher Smart and John Clare articulate a shared mode of embodiment that extends subjectivity and agency beyond the realm of the human. From a biocentric and biosemiotic perspective that acknowledges non-human modes and experiences of existence as meaningful, these poems constitute first stepping stones toward a literary genealogy of a creaturely poetics that acknowledges non-human creatures as 'significant others'.
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