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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... critic is concerned only with the question of origins or only with the impact of Shakespearean drama , a dilemma ensues : one is forced to be either uncritically historical or ahistorically critical . Instead , the criticism itself must ...
... critic is concerned only with the question of origins or only with the impact of Shakespearean drama , a dilemma ensues : one is forced to be either uncritically historical or ahistorically critical . Instead , the criticism itself must ...
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... Criticism in the Renaissance , 2nd ed . ( New York , 1924 ) , p . 87 ; cf. p . 128. But see Vernon Hall , Jr. , Renaissance Literary Criticism : A Study of its Social Content ( Gloucester , Mass . , reprint ed . , 1959 ) , p . 181 ...
... Criticism in the Renaissance , 2nd ed . ( New York , 1924 ) , p . 87 ; cf. p . 128. But see Vernon Hall , Jr. , Renaissance Literary Criticism : A Study of its Social Content ( Gloucester , Mass . , reprint ed . , 1959 ) , p . 181 ...
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... Criticism : Shakespeare's Imagery Revisited . " Structure and Society in Literary History . Charlottesville , Va . , 1976 : 188-233 . Weinberg , Bernard . A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance . 2 vols . Chicago ...
... Criticism : Shakespeare's Imagery Revisited . " Structure and Society in Literary History . Charlottesville , Va . , 1976 : 188-233 . Weinberg , Bernard . A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance . 2 vols . Chicago ...
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