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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... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM While the mimus grew away from primitive tribal culture , the ritual and festival customs of an older agrarian social structure lived on in the folk play , especially in the English Mummers ' Play and the Sword Play ...
... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM While the mimus grew away from primitive tribal culture , the ritual and festival customs of an older agrarian social structure lived on in the folk play , especially in the English Mummers ' Play and the Sword Play ...
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... plays and allows them the unique freedom to move outside the world of the play : John Finney , Beelzebub , the fool , like the clown in the Plough Play and Sword Dance , do not act exclusively within the framework of the combat , cure ...
... plays and allows them the unique freedom to move outside the world of the play : John Finney , Beelzebub , the fool , like the clown in the Plough Play and Sword Dance , do not act exclusively within the framework of the combat , cure ...
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... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM 1. Margaret Dean - Smith , " The Life Cycle or Folk Play , " Folk - Lore 69 ( 1958 ) : 235-36 . 2. R. J. E. Tiddy , The Mummers ' Play ( Oxford , 1923 ) , pp . 91–92 . On the following , cf. E. K. Chambers , The ...
... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM 1. Margaret Dean - Smith , " The Life Cycle or Folk Play , " Folk - Lore 69 ( 1958 ) : 235-36 . 2. R. J. E. Tiddy , The Mummers ' Play ( Oxford , 1923 ) , pp . 91–92 . On the following , cf. E. K. Chambers , The ...
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