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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Side 137
... function in a playful manner . By creating simultaneous levels of both incongruity and congruity , wordplay resem- bles the traditional riddle in function if not in structure . Interestingly enough , the riddle in the popular tradition ...
... function in a playful manner . By creating simultaneous levels of both incongruity and congruity , wordplay resem- bles the traditional riddle in function if not in structure . Interestingly enough , the riddle in the popular tradition ...
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... function . " 82 Such an interpretation , generally accepted by D. M. Bevington , F. M. Salter , and the majority of the students of the morality tradition , seems quite out of touch with the most basic facts of the contemporary theater ...
... function . " 82 Such an interpretation , generally accepted by D. M. Bevington , F. M. Salter , and the majority of the students of the morality tradition , seems quite out of touch with the most basic facts of the contemporary theater ...
Side 159
... function is not a farcical one , but involves that special relationship with the audience which results from a platea - like position and allows the statement of generalized truth in a choric mode . Theirs , indeed , are " countervoices ...
... function is not a farcical one , but involves that special relationship with the audience which results from a platea - like position and allows the statement of generalized truth in a choric mode . Theirs , indeed , are " countervoices ...
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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