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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... sense and non- sense . And although the highly alliterative line that follows seems to be something of a relapse into true non - sense , its newly symbolic dimension inspires the allegorical whole of the passage with the sensuousness ...
... sense and non- sense . And although the highly alliterative line that follows seems to be something of a relapse into true non - sense , its newly symbolic dimension inspires the allegorical whole of the passage with the sensuousness ...
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... sense of the verb is sarcastically inverted , but this inversion works on two levels and has a twofold function : first , it achieves a sarcastic irony that is entirely in line with the new task of the mimetic creation of character as ...
... sense of the verb is sarcastically inverted , but this inversion works on two levels and has a twofold function : first , it achieves a sarcastic irony that is entirely in line with the new task of the mimetic creation of character as ...
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... sense of ' measure , verify ' was carried over into the abstract sense ' to produce a similar example according to measurement or from a plan ' " ; cf. also ibid . , sub OHM ( O. H. G. , âma , ôma ; M. H. G. , âme , ôme ; Netherlandish ...
... sense of ' measure , verify ' was carried over into the abstract sense ' to produce a similar example according to measurement or from a plan ' " ; cf. also ibid . , sub OHM ( O. H. G. , âma , ôma ; M. H. G. , âme , ôme ; Netherlandish ...
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