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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... lived on in the hybristika or Satyr cult . Re- peatedly there is a topsy - turvy inversion of normal controls or standards of behavior in a brief festive moment , or a reversal of values " with the dispossessed spirits summoned up to ...
... lived on in the hybristika or Satyr cult . Re- peatedly there is a topsy - turvy inversion of normal controls or standards of behavior in a brief festive moment , or a reversal of values " with the dispossessed spirits summoned up to ...
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... lived on at least in part in the jig - a dramatic balladlike dance containing some measure of satire and burlesque parody . The jig provided “ legal parody " ; it included the " bur- lesque of religious forms , " and combined an ...
... lived on at least in part in the jig - a dramatic balladlike dance containing some measure of satire and burlesque parody . The jig provided “ legal parody " ; it included the " bur- lesque of religious forms , " and combined an ...
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... lived . The Elizabethan chronicler William Harrison provided a vivid description of the changes under way in rural England when he noted that " the ground of the parish is gotten vp into a few mens hands , yea sometimes into the tenure ...
... lived . The Elizabethan chronicler William Harrison provided a vivid description of the changes under way in rural England when he noted that " the ground of the parish is gotten vp into a few mens hands , yea sometimes into the tenure ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
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