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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... thing of an oversimplification to follow too closely the customary deri- vation of the convention of madness - its dramatic functions and metaphorical energies - from classical tragedy ( via Kyd ) , such as Sene- ca's Hercules furens ...
... thing of an oversimplification to follow too closely the customary deri- vation of the convention of madness - its dramatic functions and metaphorical energies - from classical tragedy ( via Kyd ) , such as Sene- ca's Hercules furens ...
Page 137
... thing " 47 then wordplay whose object , or " thing , " is language can indeed be said to fulfill this function in a playful manner . By creating simultaneous levels of both incongruity and congruity , wordplay resem- bles the ...
... thing " 47 then wordplay whose object , or " thing , " is language can indeed be said to fulfill this function in a playful manner . By creating simultaneous levels of both incongruity and congruity , wordplay resem- bles the ...
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... things to come and things to do ( 32−40 ) . Even more impor- tant , the traditional convention of vicious self - expression is retained in order to assume a newly mimetic and characterizing function : Glouces- ter's self - introductory ...
... things to come and things to do ( 32−40 ) . Even more impor- tant , the traditional convention of vicious self - expression is retained in order to assume a newly mimetic and characterizing function : Glouces- ter's self - introductory ...
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