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 79
... platea was , to be sure , complex and variable ; and this rather formal association of figures does not do full justice to that rich variability . But as a rule the English scaffold corre- sponds to the continental domus , tentus , or ...
... platea was , to be sure , complex and variable ; and this rather formal association of figures does not do full justice to that rich variability . But as a rule the English scaffold corre- sponds to the continental domus , tentus , or ...
Page 80
... platea and the Elizabethan platform stage , it may be reasonable to assume that while the main acting area in Shakespeare's theater did not perhaps develop directly out of the platea it did take on and expand some of the platea's basic ...
... platea and the Elizabethan platform stage , it may be reasonable to assume that while the main acting area in Shakespeare's theater did not perhaps develop directly out of the platea it did take on and expand some of the platea's basic ...
Page 83
... platea and locus . It is not primarily the absence of a historical perspective that is behind this sort of ... platea , conventions by which the audience's world is made part of the play and the play is brought into the world of the ...
... platea and locus . It is not primarily the absence of a historical perspective that is behind this sort of ... platea , conventions by which the audience's world is made part of the play and the play is brought into the world of the ...
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