Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function by Robert Barnett Schwartz, Robert Schwartz, Robert Weimann

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

Robert Barnett Schwartz, Robert Schwartz, Robert Weimann

352 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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, ...

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