Robert Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. His Structure and Society in Literatue is also available as a Johns Hopkins paperback.

A magnificent study... [that] illuminates the role of folk culture in medieval drama, especially in the cycle plays and moralities, and convincingly carries the tradition forward into Elizabethan drama... We are fortunate indeed to have this book. -- David Bevington Clio

• Editor's PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The MimusChapter 2. The Folk Play and Social CustomChapter 3. The Mystery CyclesChapter 4. Moralities and InterludesChapter 5. The Elizabethan DramaChapter 6. Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and ExperimentAppendixAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. His Structure and Society in Literatue is also available as a Johns Hopkins paperback.

A magnificent study... [that] illuminates the role of folk culture in medieval drama, especially in the cycle plays and moralities, and convincingly carries the tradition forward into Elizabethan drama... We are fortunate indeed to have this book. -- David Bevington Clio

• Editor's PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The MimusChapter 2. The Folk Play and Social CustomChapter 3. The Mystery CyclesChapter 4. Moralities and InterludesChapter 5. The Elizabethan DramaChapter 6. Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and ExperimentAppendixAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. His Structure and Society in Literatue is also available as a Johns Hopkins paperback.

A magnificent study... [that] illuminates the role of folk culture in medieval drama, especially in the cycle plays and moralities, and convincingly carries the tradition forward into Elizabethan drama... We are fortunate indeed to have this book. -- David Bevington Clio

• Editor's PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The MimusChapter 2. The Folk Play and Social CustomChapter 3. The Mystery CyclesChapter 4. Moralities and InterludesChapter 5. The Elizabethan DramaChapter 6. Shakespeare's Theater: Tradition and ExperimentAppendixAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex