Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition
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Rory Vincent Loughnane, 'Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009, pp 250Download Item:
Abstract:
This thesis examines the methods by whieh revenge playwrights direct
playgoer attention to significant moments in their plays. My contention is that many
of the devices employed by these playwrights in their dramaturgical practice (whether
visual, aural, or verbal prompts) are drawn from civic practices which communicate
secular or religious authority to the spectator/listener. I suggest that the mnemonic
properties found m these civic didactic practices are inherited from the widespread
dissemination of the central tenets of the memory-training tradition from the late
medieval period (especially highlighting the importance of the Scholastic
appropriation of the memory-training tradition).
Author: Loughnane, Rory Vincent
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Piesse, AmandaPublisher:
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