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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
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":...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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. 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 occasion for dramatic experiments in representing human behaviour and identity
