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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... hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was " ( Midsummer Night's Dream IV , 1 , 110-14 ) . The mode of in- version here makes ...
... hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was " ( Midsummer Night's Dream IV , 1 , 110-14 ) . The mode of in- version here makes ...
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... wolde me holde and gett many bettyr than I 3a hath ben made cokolde Now alas whedyr xal I gone I wot nevyr whedyr nor to what place ... ( 111-19 ) Joseph presumably moves into the " place ” during this PLATEA AND LOCUS 81.
... wolde me holde and gett many bettyr than I 3a hath ben made cokolde Now alas whedyr xal I gone I wot nevyr whedyr nor to what place ... ( 111-19 ) Joseph presumably moves into the " place ” during this PLATEA AND LOCUS 81.
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... hath robd Dericke . Iohn . Why , then , I cannot let him go . Dericke . I must needs haue my man . Iohn . You shall not haue him ! Dericke . Shall I not haue my man ? Say “ no ” , and you dare ! How say you ? Shall I not haue my man ...
... hath robd Dericke . Iohn . Why , then , I cannot let him go . Dericke . I must needs haue my man . Iohn . You shall not haue him ! Dericke . Shall I not haue my man ? Say “ no ” , and you dare ! How say you ? Shall I not haue my man ...
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