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 137
... seemed to demand and the authorial propri- etorship the needs of commerce seemed to require ) created a pressure towards indi- viduating authorship . Alongside the theatrical text ( and in counterpoint to it ) editors and dramatists ...
... seemed to demand and the authorial propri- etorship the needs of commerce seemed to require ) created a pressure towards indi- viduating authorship . Alongside the theatrical text ( and in counterpoint to it ) editors and dramatists ...
Page 212
... seemed possible to preserve an aristocracy of genteel , non - commercial letters from the taint of the Grub Street press . Those who clung to the older model of the non- publishing aristocrat - forced to publish only by the rapacious ...
... seemed possible to preserve an aristocracy of genteel , non - commercial letters from the taint of the Grub Street press . Those who clung to the older model of the non- publishing aristocrat - forced to publish only by the rapacious ...
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... seemed , was that of the theatre as the primary medium of popular culture , displaced by the cinematic revolution . Shaw could rejoice in what the film would bring “ Think of the gallops , the sousings in real rivers , the boatings on ...
... seemed , was that of the theatre as the primary medium of popular culture , displaced by the cinematic revolution . Shaw could rejoice in what the film would bring “ Think of the gallops , the sousings in real rivers , the boatings on ...
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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