Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and FunctionCriticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as fully functional, that is, as part of a larger, and not only literary, whole.' |
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... King is deflated by a nonrepresentational awareness of the social identity of the actor who , when not playing the King , is no more than a swineherd . King . I'm a King and a Conqueror too , And here I do advance ! Clown . I'm the ...
... King is deflated by a nonrepresentational awareness of the social identity of the actor who , when not playing the King , is no more than a swineherd . King . I'm a King and a Conqueror too , And here I do advance ! Clown . I'm the ...
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... King dance ! Clown . A King dance ! Ask thee good fellow ? didn't I see thee tending swine ' tother day - stealing swine I meant to say ? King . Now you've given offence to your Majesty , thee must either sing a song , or off goes your ...
... King dance ! Clown . A King dance ! Ask thee good fellow ? didn't I see thee tending swine ' tother day - stealing swine I meant to say ? King . Now you've given offence to your Majesty , thee must either sing a song , or off goes your ...
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... King Johan's subsequent call for " plentyus increase , " Sedycyon re- plies much in the way that Gadshill reacts to the language of “ burgomas- ters and great oneyers " and all those who " pray continually to their saint , the ...
... King Johan's subsequent call for " plentyus increase , " Sedycyon re- plies much in the way that Gadshill reacts to the language of “ burgomas- ters and great oneyers " and all those who " pray continually to their saint , the ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
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