Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeOxford University Press, 2000 - 494 pages It 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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Page 167
... action was probably closer to Aristotle's than that of Renaissance inter- preters of the Poetics : action was , for him , primarily about narration and fateful event , not about actors gesticulating with their limbs . * The ...
... action was probably closer to Aristotle's than that of Renaissance inter- preters of the Poetics : action was , for him , primarily about narration and fateful event , not about actors gesticulating with their limbs . * The ...
Page 168
... action in accordance with each verse . The “ truchman ” in court revels complimented the nobles present and provided an explanatory introduction to the show to be per- formed . Typically even in the early Renaissance , parts of the plot ...
... action in accordance with each verse . The “ truchman ” in court revels complimented the nobles present and provided an explanatory introduction to the show to be per- formed . Typically even in the early Renaissance , parts of the plot ...
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... action narrated ( as for Aristotle ) but the action of the actor . For Castelvetro , for instance , " the definition of tragedy states that tragedy is the imitation of an action by performers who do not recite it but enact it before an ...
... action narrated ( as for Aristotle ) but the action of the actor . For Castelvetro , for instance , " the definition of tragedy states that tragedy is the imitation of an action by performers who do not recite it but enact it before an ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
Huntington Library for figs 8 22 45 47 60 the Harvard Theatre Collection | 11 |
Note on Editions Spellings Translations and Citations | 11 |
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