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- Title
Toward a Shakespearean "Memory Theater": Romeo, the Apothecary, and the Performance of Memory.
- Authors
Wilder, Lina Perkins
- Abstract
The article presents an essay on memory scenes in Shakespeare's plays. The author explains that the function of memory scenes in Shakespeare's plays is similar to that of flashbacks in film--they give background and expand the work's narrative frame beyond its immediate physical and temporal borders. She states that the element of the unexpected in Shakespeare's memory theater is the product of random recollection, a conceptualization of memory far from standard in the early modern period.
- Subjects
MEMORY; EARLY modern English drama; POLITICAL theater; DRAMATIC structure; PERFORMING arts; THEATER; FLASHBACKS (Narrative)
- Publication
Shakespeare Quarterly, 2005, Vol 56, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
0037-3222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/shq.2005.0066