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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... describes the creation of typo- graphic conventions for the drama and the relations among theatrical troupes , dramatists , and publishers during the period of the establishment of professional theatre in Europe . Chapter 2 , “ Drama as ...
... describes the creation of typo- graphic conventions for the drama and the relations among theatrical troupes , dramatists , and publishers during the period of the establishment of professional theatre in Europe . Chapter 2 , “ Drama as ...
Page 211
... describes the " Coyner and Debaser of other men's Bullion , " attempting to pass " his light alloy'd Mettle ... upon the Town for sterling " : " Men who have got the Form of Poetry without the Power ... despair to put off that sorry ...
... describes the " Coyner and Debaser of other men's Bullion , " attempting to pass " his light alloy'd Mettle ... upon the Town for sterling " : " Men who have got the Form of Poetry without the Power ... despair to put off that sorry ...
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... describes how theatres should be built but also explains tragic , comic , and satiric genres and describes rotating machinery that could bring painted backdrops , houses , and woods into sudden view . Alberti , L'architettura ( 1966 edn ...
... describes how theatres should be built but also explains tragic , comic , and satiric genres and describes rotating machinery that could bring painted backdrops , houses , and woods into sudden view . Alberti , L'architettura ( 1966 edn ...
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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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
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