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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... connection between both the choral and topsy- turvying functions of the fool on the one hand and the processional leader of those who performed rites of fertility or were possessed by spirits on the other . For instance , if the ...
... connection between both the choral and topsy- turvying functions of the fool on the one hand and the processional leader of those who performed rites of fertility or were possessed by spirits on the other . For instance , if the ...
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... connection is , however , an important one , and bears not only on the continuing tension between realistic ... connections between the technical arrangements and the unformulated intellectual assumptions of the medieval theater is to ...
... connection is , however , an important one , and bears not only on the continuing tension between realistic ... connections between the technical arrangements and the unformulated intellectual assumptions of the medieval theater is to ...
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... connected , in the mystery plays , with figures mainly pagan and ritual in origin . This connection , which deserves to be considered a little more closely , points to an important element in the background of the morality Vice . Merely ...
... connected , in the mystery plays , with figures mainly pagan and ritual in origin . This connection , which deserves to be considered a little more closely , points to an important element in the background of the morality Vice . Merely ...
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