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
... tell the reader ) " according to the intention of the Author . " 52 The accompanying change in assump- tions about the function of the dramatist's name in the labelling and selling of the play ran counter to the norms which ( as we have ...
... tell the reader ) " according to the intention of the Author . " 52 The accompanying change in assump- tions about the function of the dramatist's name in the labelling and selling of the play ran counter to the norms which ( as we have ...
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... telling was understood in theatrical terms . We have already seen Castel- vetro's rejection of telling ( in the hybrid third kind of dialogue ) as a violation of dra- matic decorum . When Sidney complains of the player who , " when he ...
... telling was understood in theatrical terms . We have already seen Castel- vetro's rejection of telling ( in the hybrid third kind of dialogue ) as a violation of dra- matic decorum . When Sidney complains of the player who , " when he ...
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... tell Spectators what shall next be shown ; So here , am I ; but though I've toyld and vext , ' Cannot devise what to ... telling " improper in a genre made of " showing , " they nonetheless served the important purpose of allowing ...
... tell Spectators what shall next be shown ; So here , am I ; but though I've toyld and vext , ' Cannot devise what to ... telling " improper in a genre made of " showing , " they nonetheless served the important purpose of allowing ...
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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