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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... festive release were not at all incompatible with some sort of communal consciousness and some elements of social criticism . In fact , the tra- ditions of popular myth , ritual , and disguise seemed to provide a favor- able vehicle for ...
... festive release were not at all incompatible with some sort of communal consciousness and some elements of social criticism . In fact , the tra- ditions of popular myth , ritual , and disguise seemed to provide a favor- able vehicle for ...
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... festive elements in the mystery plays have probably been underrated , it seems doubtful that they provided the most basic impulse and inspiration . The point that has to be made is not simply that many traditions of precycle origin were ...
... festive elements in the mystery plays have probably been underrated , it seems doubtful that they provided the most basic impulse and inspiration . The point that has to be made is not simply that many traditions of precycle origin were ...
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... festive custom . The social functions of festival and the traditions of a utopian “ green world " of freedom and release have been brilliantly explored in C. L. Barber's Shakespeare's Festive Com- edy . Most of the conclusions in this ...
... festive custom . The social functions of festival and the traditions of a utopian “ green world " of freedom and release have been brilliantly explored in C. L. Barber's Shakespeare's Festive Com- edy . Most of the conclusions in this ...
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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