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 158
... nature , " is significant . In gesturing , the body is not merely " instructed by nature , " but produces out of that instruction a discourse more natural than the sophistications of speech : And all these motions and habits of the hand ...
... nature , " is significant . In gesturing , the body is not merely " instructed by nature , " but produces out of that instruction a discourse more natural than the sophistications of speech : And all these motions and habits of the hand ...
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... nature rather than books . In his com- mendatory poem added to the 1638 edition of Thomas Randolph's works , Richard West identifies Randolph as the poet of " Nature " ( " Nature and Hee all in an Instant made " ) , contrasted with the ...
... nature rather than books . In his com- mendatory poem added to the 1638 edition of Thomas Randolph's works , Richard West identifies Randolph as the poet of " Nature " ( " Nature and Hee all in an Instant made " ) , contrasted with the ...
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... nature . Writ- ing in 1725 Pope can admiringly cast Shakespeare ( already styled the poet of nature ) as the prototypical " Original , " superior even to the original originals ( the Ancients ) : " If ever any Author deserved the name ...
... nature . Writ- ing in 1725 Pope can admiringly cast Shakespeare ( already styled the poet of nature ) as the prototypical " Original , " superior even to the original originals ( the Ancients ) : " If ever any Author deserved the name ...
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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