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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... appeared since 1967. It has been my primary goal to prepare as expeditiously as ⚫ possible a clear and compact edition of a book whose publication in English has been delayed at many points after an unsatisfactory prelimi- nary ...
... appeared since 1967. It has been my primary goal to prepare as expeditiously as ⚫ possible a clear and compact edition of a book whose publication in English has been delayed at many points after an unsatisfactory prelimi- nary ...
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... appeared as an artistic power in his own right , as a humanist - educated , ambitious , and , whenever possible , patronized artist . Thus , Titus An- dronicus was interpreted as an early artistic exercise in the Senecan style , The ...
... appeared as an artistic power in his own right , as a humanist - educated , ambitious , and , whenever possible , patronized artist . Thus , Titus An- dronicus was interpreted as an early artistic exercise in the Senecan style , The ...
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... appeared in the disguises of aristocratic tournaments , courtly revels , and the later masque , it was the Robin Hood theme that suffered the most severe changes ( in pastoral and aristocratic interpretation as well as in its ...
... appeared in the disguises of aristocratic tournaments , courtly revels , and the later masque , it was the Robin Hood theme that suffered the most severe changes ( in pastoral and aristocratic interpretation as well as in its ...
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