Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
- Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press February 1, 1987
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0801835062
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801835063
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"A awesome 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." -- David Bevington, Clio
Product Description
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.'