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 119
... language " of the standardized vernacular was central to national identity , that language could be promulgated through collections of plays like Robert Garnier's Tragédies which ( according to Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye ) demon ...
... language " of the standardized vernacular was central to national identity , that language could be promulgated through collections of plays like Robert Garnier's Tragédies which ( according to Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye ) demon ...
Page 156
... Language of the Hand and its companion , Chironomia : or , The Art of Manual Rhetoric ( both published in 1644 ) , is perhaps the best - known seventeenth - century exponent of a theory of gesture as lan- guage . The art of gesturing is ...
... Language of the Hand and its companion , Chironomia : or , The Art of Manual Rhetoric ( both published in 1644 ) , is perhaps the best - known seventeenth - century exponent of a theory of gesture as lan- guage . The art of gesturing is ...
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... language , the only one exempt from the alienation of humanity after Babel : Nor doth the hand in one speech or kind of language serve to intimate and express our mind ; it speaks all languages , and as an universal character of reason ...
... language , the only one exempt from the alienation of humanity after Babel : Nor doth the hand in one speech or kind of language serve to intimate and express our mind ; it speaks all languages , and as an universal character of reason ...
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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