Shakespeare and the popular tradition in the theater : studies in the social dimension of dramatic form and function

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Shakespeare and the popular tradition in the theater : studies in the social dimension of dramatic form and function

Robert Weimann ; edited by Robert Schwartz

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1978

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Shakespeare und die Tradition des Volkstheaters : Soziologie, Dramaturgie, Gestaltung

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Revised English translation of Shakespeare und die Tradition des Volkstheaters

Bibliography: p. 297-315

Includes index

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Description

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.'

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Mimus Chapter 2. The Folk Play and Social Custom Chapter 3. The Mystery Cycles Chapter 4. Moralities and Interludes Chapter 5. The Elizabethan Drama Chapter 6. Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and Experiment Appendix Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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