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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... stand ye forth , my merye men all ” — were not , as J. Q. Adams has suggested , addressed to the actors but to the audience , just as performers who introduced the Mummers ' Play and Sword Dance usually called for room and thereby ...
... stand ye forth , my merye men all ” — were not , as J. Q. Adams has suggested , addressed to the actors but to the audience , just as performers who introduced the Mummers ' Play and Sword Dance usually called for room and thereby ...
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... Stand on head , stand on feet ! Meat , meat , meat for to eat ! I am the Dragon , -here are my jaws ! I am the Dragon , -here are my claws ! Meat , meat , meat for to eat ! Stand on my head , stand on my feet ! The Dragon speaks . Tries ...
... Stand on head , stand on feet ! Meat , meat , meat for to eat ! I am the Dragon , -here are my jaws ! I am the Dragon , -here are my claws ! Meat , meat , meat for to eat ! Stand on my head , stand on my feet ! The Dragon speaks . Tries ...
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... stand upright ; From the lowest to the highest I do ascend , Drawing them to things of natural might . ( III , 268 ) Here the late ritual nonsensical patter , by virtue of its newly repre- sentational function , has developed a more ...
... stand upright ; From the lowest to the highest I do ascend , Drawing them to things of natural might . ( III , 268 ) Here the late ritual nonsensical patter , by virtue of its newly repre- sentational function , has developed a more ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
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