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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... there were certainly plenty of play readers ( the readers about whom William Prynne was so worried ) , readers gener- ally seem to have preferred other kinds of books : works of devotion , the ancients , practical management , law ...
... there were certainly plenty of play readers ( the readers about whom William Prynne was so worried ) , readers gener- ally seem to have preferred other kinds of books : works of devotion , the ancients , practical management , law ...
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... there was a tension between company control over printing and playwrights ' control , in Eng- land and elsewhere . In France in 1620 , Alexandre Hardy entered into a contract that prohibited him from printing any of the plays he was ...
... there was a tension between company control over printing and playwrights ' control , in Eng- land and elsewhere . In France in 1620 , Alexandre Hardy entered into a contract that prohibited him from printing any of the plays he was ...
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... there were more plays being printed . William Prynne's complaint that there were over forty thousand playbooks printed in 1632–3 is actually a fairly close estimate . In any case , there was a clear change in the 1630s , and a surge in ...
... there were more plays being printed . William Prynne's complaint that there were over forty thousand playbooks printed in 1632–3 is actually a fairly close estimate . In any case , there was a clear change in the 1630s , and a surge in ...
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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