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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... associated with more modern dramatic characters . Thus he remains , more than any other figure in drama , closest to his early ritual heritage . The descendant of a ritual that has long since lost its original function , the fool is an ...
... associated with more modern dramatic characters . Thus he remains , more than any other figure in drama , closest to his early ritual heritage . The descendant of a ritual that has long since lost its original function , the fool is an ...
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... associated with the native dramatic heritage that Shakespeare finally inherited . It should be noted from the start , though , that Mankind is in many ways a unique play ; and so any interpretation of it must avoid generaliza- tions ...
... associated with the native dramatic heritage that Shakespeare finally inherited . It should be noted from the start , though , that Mankind is in many ways a unique play ; and so any interpretation of it must avoid generaliza- tions ...
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... associated by editors with John a Droynes , a country bumpkin . " 29 Such verbal parallels , while certainly striking , are probably quite accidental ; they prove no " influence , " but do indicate that the new symbolic or thematic ...
... associated by editors with John a Droynes , a country bumpkin . " 29 Such verbal parallels , while certainly striking , are probably quite accidental ; they prove no " influence , " but do indicate that the new symbolic or thematic ...
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