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.

Drama and the History of Memory Drama and the Memory of History Memory Plays Before the 'Memory Play' The 'Memory Play' and After: Narrative Paradigms Drama of Mnemic Signs Confrontation or Convergence: Staging the Encounter of History and Memory

ATTILIO FAVORINI is Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, USA.