Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeIt shows that, far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press had an essential role to play in the birth of the modern theatre, crucially shaping the normative conception of theatre as a distinct aesthetic medium and of drama as a distinct narrative form, helping to forge a theatricalist aesthetics in opposition to 'the book'. Treating playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera at once as material objects and expressions of complex cultural formations, Theatre of the Book examines the European theatre's resistance to and continual refashioning of itself in the world of print."--Jacket. |
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126 But despite appearances to the contrary , the published “ promptbooks ” were in fact crafted for the reader ... throughout Kemble's promptbooks , writes James Boaden admiringly in his Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble ( 1825 ) ...
126 But despite appearances to the contrary , the published “ promptbooks ” were in fact crafted for the reader ... throughout Kemble's promptbooks , writes James Boaden admiringly in his Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble ( 1825 ) ...
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Note on Editions Spellings Translations and Citations II | 11 |
Experimenting on the Page 14801630 15 | 12 |
Foundations for figs 19 25 the Swedish National Museum Stockholm for figs | 28 |
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| Title | Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Author | Julie Stone Peters |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198187149, 9780198187141 |
| Length | 494 pages |
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