Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama
Subtitle: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521848428
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Memory in literature; Literary Criticism; English drama; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; 17th century
First sentence: In Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," Venus is overcome with a desire whose effects are depicted in terms of forgetting: And careless lust stirs up a desperate courage, Planting oblivion, beating reason back, Forgetting shame's pure blush and honor's wrack.