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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Page 239
... comic or choric interlude are , from a structural point of view , the most distinctive , and they certainly have received the widest critical attention . But if , as William Empson suggested , the comic interlude is “ the earliest form ...
... comic or choric interlude are , from a structural point of view , the most distinctive , and they certainly have received the widest critical attention . But if , as William Empson suggested , the comic interlude is “ the earliest form ...
Page 255
... comic to themselves or whether they appear so only to the audience . " While the latter appear merely ridiculous to Hegel , the former are more truly comic in the sense that they enjoy the " blessed ease of a subjectivity which , as it ...
... comic to themselves or whether they appear so only to the audience . " While the latter appear merely ridiculous to Hegel , the former are more truly comic in the sense that they enjoy the " blessed ease of a subjectivity which , as it ...
Page 259
... comic ease and flexibility of these relations are still enriched by some traditional connection between the clowning actor and the laughing spectator - a connection that has its ultimate origins in the rituals of a less divided society ...
... comic ease and flexibility of these relations are still enriched by some traditional connection between the clowning actor and the laughing spectator - a connection that has its ultimate origins in the rituals of a less divided society ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
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