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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... desire to take off.43 What comedy there is results from the inversion of abstractions ( such as time ) or from a twisting of words and meanings , sometimes amount- ing only to ribald ambiguity . In the more sophisticated 34 THE FOLK ...
... desire to take off.43 What comedy there is results from the inversion of abstractions ( such as time ) or from a twisting of words and meanings , sometimes amount- ing only to ribald ambiguity . In the more sophisticated 34 THE FOLK ...
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... desire to control the continents and the forces of nature , like the worship of Helen's beauty , goes far beyond the ... desires . O what a world of profit and delight , Of power , of honor , of omnipotence Is promised to the studious ...
... desire to control the continents and the forces of nature , like the worship of Helen's beauty , goes far beyond the ... desires . O what a world of profit and delight , Of power , of honor , of omnipotence Is promised to the studious ...
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... desire for every sort of effect together . " 92 In Shakespeare's tragedies , as in the comedies and the histories , there is no confusion , only flexibility ; and such flexibility cannot be called arbitrary when its structure is so ...
... desire for every sort of effect together . " 92 In Shakespeare's tragedies , as in the comedies and the histories , there is no confusion , only flexibility ; and such flexibility cannot be called arbitrary when its structure is so ...
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