| Memory in Play: From Aeschylus to Sam Shepard 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Favorini, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230604641 ISBN-13: 9780230604643 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: "Memory in Play" makes evident that memory, though critically neglected, is as significant as race, gender, and class as a feature of dramatic character construction. Favorini skillfully argues that dramatic models of memory need to be reckoned along with the constructions of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in order to render a full account of the history of memory. Through this lens, the work of Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Goethe, Ibsen, and Strindberg, as well as such pillars of twentieth-century drama as Pirandello, O'Neill, Wilder, Sherwood, Williams, Miller, Anouilh, Beckett, Pinter, Friel, Shepard, Kennedy, and Wilson are explored. By offering a vantage point for recognizing how dramatists have contributed to the conception of memory alongside other "memographers," irrespective of discipline, a lingua franca emerges for discussing a phenomenon studied from the perspectives of so many theoretical bases. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 809.293 |
| LCCN: 2008017504 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our response to drama. |