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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... Robin Hood was incorporated into other forms of popular custom . Many people , Hugh Latimer noted to his chagrin , were more inclined to celebrate Robin Hood's Day than hear a Bishop preach ; and , as Nicholas Bownd noted in 1606 , most ...
... Robin Hood was incorporated into other forms of popular custom . Many people , Hugh Latimer noted to his chagrin , were more inclined to celebrate Robin Hood's Day than hear a Bishop preach ; and , as Nicholas Bownd noted in 1606 , most ...
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... Robin Hood almost certainly reflected neither the status of serving man " nor a rich peasant , but simply a peasant of free personal status . " But since the lower peasants and serv- ing men shared a good many of the aspirations and ...
... Robin Hood almost certainly reflected neither the status of serving man " nor a rich peasant , but simply a peasant of free personal status . " But since the lower peasants and serv- ing men shared a good many of the aspirations and ...
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... Robin Hood Play . It is true that in some cases Robin Hood's presence in seasonal processions may well have been the primary source of his accretion in the folk play . This would support an understanding of the figure according to which ...
... Robin Hood Play . It is true that in some cases Robin Hood's presence in seasonal processions may well have been the primary source of his accretion in the folk play . This would support an understanding of the figure according to which ...
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