Includes bibliographical references(pages 206-218) and index.
Contents
Staging memory -- Mnemonic desire and place-based memory systems: body, book, and theatre -- "I do remember": the nurse, the apothecary, and Romeo -- Wasting memory: competing mnemonics in the Henry plays -- "Baser matter" and mnemonic pedagogy in Hamlet -- "The handkerchief, my mind misgives": false past in Othello -- "Flaws and starts": fragmented recollection in Macbeth -- Mnemonic control and watery disorder in The Tempest -- A "most small fault": feminine "nothings" and the spaces of memory.