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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... scene was not an illusionary locality ; essentially , the scene was the theater itself with an audience in it . And the citizen audience , which considered itself involved in what happened on the stage , found a common voice in the ...
... scene was not an illusionary locality ; essentially , the scene was the theater itself with an audience in it . And the citizen audience , which considered itself involved in what happened on the stage , found a common voice in the ...
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Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function Robert Weimann. from scene to scene ; but a general flexibility of stagecraft , one that constantly recalls the platea tradition of the Vice , is unmistakable in those scenes ...
Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function Robert Weimann. from scene to scene ; but a general flexibility of stagecraft , one that constantly recalls the platea tradition of the Vice , is unmistakable in those scenes ...
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... scene does in fact conclude it ; and often enough the speaker of the couplet is the last actor to leave the stage , sometimes even with a clear " Away ! " ( Troilus and Cressida III , 2 , 205 ) . It is true that the couplet spoken at ...
... scene does in fact conclude it ; and often enough the speaker of the couplet is the last actor to leave the stage , sometimes even with a clear " Away ! " ( Troilus and Cressida III , 2 , 205 ) . It is true that the couplet spoken at ...
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