Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater - Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function

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.'

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Weimann
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert Schwartz (Editore)
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.03.1987
• EAN: 9780801835063
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3506-3
• Pagine: 352
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto