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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Page 31
... late in some obscure way with the texture of their verbal expression . Taken all together , the peculiarities of the clowning figure can hardly derive from Christian sources or be understood as later “ comic " accre- tions . Nor , in ...
... late in some obscure way with the texture of their verbal expression . Taken all together , the peculiarities of the clowning figure can hardly derive from Christian sources or be understood as later “ comic " accre- tions . Nor , in ...
Page 147
... late as in The Conflict of Conscience where he presented himself “ like a madman " ( Dod . , VI , 56 ) . There must have been a connection , which is difficult to trace now , between the " mad sort " that Haphazard boasts of and the ...
... late as in The Conflict of Conscience where he presented himself “ like a madman " ( Dod . , VI , 56 ) . There must have been a connection , which is difficult to trace now , between the " mad sort " that Haphazard boasts of and the ...
Page 253
... late ritual element of death and rebirth in the folk play and the peculiar mold of the " tragic glass ” in Elizabethan tragedy seems to push the argument for the popular tradition onto rather tenuous and speculative ground . It is of ...
... late ritual element of death and rebirth in the folk play and the peculiar mold of the " tragic glass ” in Elizabethan tragedy seems to push the argument for the popular tradition onto rather tenuous and speculative ground . It is of ...
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