Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and FunctionJohns Hopkins University Press, 1978 - 325 sider Criticism 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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... myth , the “ measuring " potential of mimesis as imitation assumed a new independence . No longer archetypes to be embodied , scenes taken from myth became secular objects of sheer imitation and , finally , objects of parody and comic ...
... myth , the “ measuring " potential of mimesis as imitation assumed a new independence . No longer archetypes to be embodied , scenes taken from myth became secular objects of sheer imitation and , finally , objects of parody and comic ...
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... mythical idealism and a popular burlesque realism . " 20 But the disenchanting qual- ities of this kind of realism cannot be defined exclusively in terms of its opposition to the theater of myth and idealism . Mythical idealism does in ...
... mythical idealism and a popular burlesque realism . " 20 But the disenchanting qual- ities of this kind of realism cannot be defined exclusively in terms of its opposition to the theater of myth and idealism . Mythical idealism does in ...
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... myth ( its potential as story ) remained undeveloped in early English drama . Whatever echoes of non - Christian myth we have are incidental , and the much greater impact of late ritual traditions was such that comedy rather than ...
... myth ( its potential as story ) remained undeveloped in early English drama . Whatever echoes of non - Christian myth we have are incidental , and the much greater impact of late ritual traditions was such that comedy rather than ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1987 |
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