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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... continuity have a good deal to do with the ambivalence of his dramatic functions : he retains the capacity both to enchant and disenchant . He can neu- tralize myth and ritual through the unmasking and debunking potential of mimesis ...
... continuity have a good deal to do with the ambivalence of his dramatic functions : he retains the capacity both to enchant and disenchant . He can neu- tralize myth and ritual through the unmasking and debunking potential of mimesis ...
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... continuity right up to Shake- speare is extravagant ; but the enormous amount of evidence that he compiled should at least be given a very careful second look . Some of his conjectures — about the origin of Jack Juggler in joculator ...
... continuity right up to Shake- speare is extravagant ; but the enormous amount of evidence that he compiled should at least be given a very careful second look . Some of his conjectures — about the origin of Jack Juggler in joculator ...
Side 98
... continuity of the popular tradition in the moralities and interludes is always to be aware of its changing context and increasingly complex social foundations . While the mystery plays were intimately related to the social structure of ...
... continuity of the popular tradition in the moralities and interludes is always to be aware of its changing context and increasingly complex social foundations . While the mystery plays were intimately related to the social structure of ...
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THE MIMUS | 1 |
THE FOLK PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM | 15 |
THE MYSTERY CYCLES | 49 |
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achieved acting area action actor Alfred Harbage Apemantus attitudes audience basic biblical burlesque ceremonies character clown comedy comic contemporary context contradiction conventions criticism culture cycles dance developed dialogue dramatic dramatists dramaturgy E. K. Chambers effect elements Elizabethan English experience F. J. Furnivall Faustus festive figures fool function Garcio grotesque Hamlet heritage Herod holy homiletic humanist illusion important interpretation inversion Jack Finney King late ritual Lear literary locus Lollards London Ludus Coventriae madness meaning mimesis mimetic miming mimus mode morality Mummers Myscheff mystery plays myth nonrepresentational original parody performance perspective platea plebeian poetic popular theater popular tradition position proverb realism reality relationship Renaissance representational rhetoric Richard Richard Southern Robin Hood role scaffold scene secular self-expression sense Shakespeare Shakespeare's theater shepherds social society speech stagecraft structure Tarlton tension theatrical theme thou tion Tudor unity verbal Vice Vice's Wakefield word wordplay yowur