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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... society and that the social composition and dramatic taste of its audience determined or " explained " the nature of the plays . But such a positivistic approach is too reductive to be useful . It is true that the organization and ...
... society and that the social composition and dramatic taste of its audience determined or " explained " the nature of the plays . But such a positivistic approach is too reductive to be useful . It is true that the organization and ...
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... society were so mixed and worked , as to allow the towns to change the local independence and sovereignty of the Middle Ages for the general rule of the middle classes , and the common sway of civil society . " 13 It is important to ...
... society were so mixed and worked , as to allow the towns to change the local independence and sovereignty of the Middle Ages for the general rule of the middle classes , and the common sway of civil society . " 13 It is important to ...
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... Society in the Age of Jonson ( Har- mondsworth , 1962 ) , pp . 179-99 . 80. For the unity of " merriment ” and “ satire ” in Shakespeare , cf. O. J. Campbell , Shakespeare's Satire ( New York , 1943 ) , p . 23 . 81. Bevington , From ...
... Society in the Age of Jonson ( Har- mondsworth , 1962 ) , pp . 179-99 . 80. For the unity of " merriment ” and “ satire ” in Shakespeare , cf. O. J. Campbell , Shakespeare's Satire ( New York , 1943 ) , p . 23 . 81. Bevington , From ...
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