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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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.
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In its earliest stages ritual is both consecrative and productive, irrational but at the same time organizational; there is a point at which myth encompasses both religion and knowledge, illusion and a sense of reality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancient mimus, platea position, contrarie sence, verbal inversion, popular dramaturgy, downstage position, festive release, broad fun, popular theatrical tradition, moralities and interludes, representational action, circular theater, shepherd scenes, audience contact, folk fool, ritual heritage, popular dramatic tradition, mimetic magic, ritual embodiment, folk play, medieval theater, nonsense speech, pageant stage, theatrical functions, medieval drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robin Hood, Middle Ages, First Shepherd, King Lear, Ludus Coventriae, John Finney, Corpus Christi, Wakefield Master, Doctor Faustus, King Cambises, New Monarchy, The Castle of Perseverance, The Play of the Sacrament, Prima Pastorum, Secunda Pastorum, Twelfth Night, Mary Magdalene, Old Comedy, Dick Tarlton, Robin Goodfellow, Alfred Harbage, Gabriel Harvey, Hermann Reich, John Cobler, May King New!
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In its earliest stages ritual is both consecrative and productive, irrational but at the same time organizational; there is a point at which myth encompasses both religion and knowledge, illusion and a sense of reality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ancient mimus, platea position, contrarie sence, verbal inversion, popular dramaturgy, downstage position, festive release, broad fun, popular theatrical tradition, moralities and interludes, representational action, circular theater, shepherd scenes, audience contact, folk fool, ritual heritage, popular dramatic tradition, mimetic magic, ritual embodiment, folk play, medieval theater, nonsense speech, pageant stage, theatrical functions, medieval drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robin Hood, Middle Ages, First Shepherd, King Lear, Ludus Coventriae, John Finney, Corpus Christi, Wakefield Master, Doctor Faustus, King Cambises, New Monarchy, The Castle of Perseverance, The Play of the Sacrament, Prima Pastorum, Secunda Pastorum, Twelfth Night, Mary Magdalene, Old Comedy, Dick Tarlton, Robin Goodfellow, Alfred Harbage, Gabriel Harvey, Hermann Reich, John Cobler, May King New!
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- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 13 pages
- The Mediaeval Stage (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by E. K. Chambers on 7 pages
- Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Collection) by Jan Dean on 5 pages
- A Select Collection of Old English Plays: V6 by Robert Dodsley on 4 pages
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- 'Hamlet' without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia on 4 pages
- Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Wendy Wall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shakespeare's Theory of Drama by Pauline Kiernan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Introduction by Dieter Mehl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage by Viviana Comensoli on page 152, and Back Matter
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