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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... readers and listeners . Most plays had multiple purposes ; most printers and writers attempted to represent the past simul- taneously in a variety of ways , and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users ...
... readers and listeners . Most plays had multiple purposes ; most printers and writers attempted to represent the past simul- taneously in a variety of ways , and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users ...
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... reading plays , dramas not meant for the stage , plays for the closet , and so on ) + may have reflected less a literary withdrawal from the com- mercialized stage than a literary response to the large body of play readers for whom ...
... reading plays , dramas not meant for the stage , plays for the closet , and so on ) + may have reflected less a literary withdrawal from the com- mercialized stage than a literary response to the large body of play readers for whom ...
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... reading of plays was a co - operative enterprise of editor and reader : discerning readers were to supply their own amendments.18 Marston , for instance , calls on his readers ' " discretion " in the " corrected " second quarto of The ...
... reading of plays was a co - operative enterprise of editor and reader : discerning readers were to supply their own amendments.18 Marston , for instance , calls on his readers ' " discretion " in the " corrected " second quarto of The ...
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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