Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me ', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory brings together classical and early modern sources, theatre history, performance, material culture, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience in order to explore ideas about memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems. It argues that, when Shakespeare was writing, ideas about memory were undergoing a kind of crisis, as both the technologies of memory (print, the theatre itself) and the belief structures underpinning ideas about memory underwent rapid...
Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me ', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember now? Shakespeare and Memory br...
