Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater

Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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Beskrivning

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.'

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1987-03-29
Mått:149 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:539 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801835063

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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.

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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

Innehållsförteckning

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