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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... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM While the mimus grew away from primitive tribal culture , the ritual and festival customs of an older agrarian social structure lived on in the folk play , especially in the English Mummers ' Play and the Sword Play ...
... PLAY AND SOCIAL CUSTOM While the mimus grew away from primitive tribal culture , the ritual and festival customs of an older agrarian social structure lived on in the folk play , especially in the English Mummers ' Play and the Sword Play ...
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... plays and allows them the unique freedom to move outside the world of the play : John Finney , Beelzebub , the fool , like the clown in the Plough Play and Sword Dance , do not act exclusively within the framework of the combat , cure ...
... plays and allows them the unique freedom to move outside the world of the play : John Finney , Beelzebub , the fool , like the clown in the Plough Play and Sword Dance , do not act exclusively within the framework of the combat , cure ...
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... played so important a part in their own folk background . Mankind ( ca. 1471 ) is the earliest and perhaps most interesting work of such a troupe . The play reveals a thorough familiarity with the tra- ditional " myrth and game " of ...
... played so important a part in their own folk background . Mankind ( ca. 1471 ) is the earliest and perhaps most interesting work of such a troupe . The play reveals a thorough familiarity with the tra- ditional " myrth and game " 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