Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater

Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function
Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3506-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

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 socity, 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."

Internationally hailed upon its original publication Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater was revised and updated for this English translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weimann, Robert

Schwartz, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Weimann, Robert
Robert Weimann is professor of literature at the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater and Structure and Society in Literary History.

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.