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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... look again at one of the most charac- teristic forms of topsy - turvydom in the Mummers ' Play : I met a bark and he dogged at me . I went to the stick and cut a hedge , gave him a rallier over the yud jud killed him round stout stiff ...
... look again at one of the most charac- teristic forms of topsy - turvydom in the Mummers ' Play : I met a bark and he dogged at me . I went to the stick and cut a hedge , gave him a rallier over the yud jud killed him round stout stiff ...
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... look for a moment at some aspects of anachronism in the Ludus Coventriae . Characteristically , anachronism is achieved by conjoining two levels of time or the opposite poles of mimesis ( its Subjekt , or the actor , and its object , or ...
... look for a moment at some aspects of anachronism in the Ludus Coventriae . Characteristically , anachronism is achieved by conjoining two levels of time or the opposite poles of mimesis ( its Subjekt , or the actor , and its object , or ...
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... look back to Jack Cade's political Saturnalia ( “ And Adam was a gardener " - " But then are we in order when we are most out of order " [ 2 Henry VI IV , 2 , 128 ; 184-85 ] ) which , however , presented a case of the mocker mocked ...
... look back to Jack Cade's political Saturnalia ( “ And Adam was a gardener " - " But then are we in order when we are most out of order " [ 2 Henry VI IV , 2 , 128 ; 184-85 ] ) which , however , presented a case of the mocker mocked ...
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