Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function |
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| Author:
| Weimann, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-3506-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1987 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......