“Though it be not written down, yet forget not”: Cultural Amnesia in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16486
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cultural amnesia William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Alison Findlay
Lancaster University
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Author Biography
Alison Findlay, Lancaster University

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University. She specialises in sixteenth and seventeenth century drama, gender issues and performance practices. She is the author of Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama(Manchester University Press, 1994), A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama (Blackwell Publishers, 1998) and Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Most recently she has published Women in Shakespeare (Continuum, 2010). She is co-author ofWomen and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 (Longman’s Medieval and Renaissance Library,Pearson, 2000) based on a research project using practical workshops and productions. She has published essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and is currently a General Editor of the Revels Plays (Manchester University Press). She is presently working on Much Ado About Nothing: a text and its theatrical life to be published by Palgrave.

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