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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... fact was , taken against popular modes of topsy - turvydom . Festivals such as the famous May games in Suffolk ( 1557 ) , where “ one played husbandry , and said many things against gentlemen , more than was in the book of the play ...
... fact was , taken against popular modes of topsy - turvydom . Festivals such as the famous May games in Suffolk ( 1557 ) , where “ one played husbandry , and said many things against gentlemen , more than was in the book of the play ...
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... fact that the evolutionary idea of a gradual secularization of liturgical drama has as a matter of course led scholars to underesti- mate and , in fact , neglect the secular elements in the early , precycle traditions , and it has ...
... fact that the evolutionary idea of a gradual secularization of liturgical drama has as a matter of course led scholars to underesti- mate and , in fact , neglect the secular elements in the early , precycle traditions , and it has ...
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... fact , first demonstrated to my knowledge by John Corbin ( The Elizabethan Hamlet [ London / New York , 1895 ] , esp . p . 29 ) , that “ the mad [ and potentially tragic ] scenes had a comic aspect now ignored . " This comic component ...
... fact , first demonstrated to my knowledge by John Corbin ( The Elizabethan Hamlet [ London / New York , 1895 ] , esp . p . 29 ) , that “ the mad [ and potentially tragic ] scenes had a comic aspect now ignored . " This comic component ...
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