Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeOxford University Press, 2003 - 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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... identifying them with gesticulating actors on stages , with painted streets and trees , in promoting stan- dards against which the multitude of local performance genres could measure them- selves , in textualizing the singing of the ...
... identifying them with gesticulating actors on stages , with painted streets and trees , in promoting stan- dards against which the multitude of local performance genres could measure them- selves , in textualizing the singing of the ...
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... identified with them : the disappearance of the tactile and olfactory ; the legitimation of stage gesture ; the ... identification of piracy and plagiarism as thievery , and the distinction of poetic “ original ” from copy - crucial to ...
... identified with them : the disappearance of the tactile and olfactory ; the legitimation of stage gesture ; the ... identification of piracy and plagiarism as thievery , and the distinction of poetic “ original ” from copy - crucial to ...
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... identifying information in parentheses . I cite non - consecutively paginated volumes by short title , followed by a bracketed citation to the work within the volume and its page number . Act , scene , and line numbers appear in the ...
... identifying information in parentheses . I cite non - consecutively paginated volumes by short title , followed by a bracketed citation to the work within the volume and its page number . Act , scene , and line numbers appear in the ...
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Contents
Experimenting on the Page 14801630 | 15 |
Drama us Institution 16301760 | 41 |
Illustrations Promptbooks Stage Texts 17601880 | 66 |
THEATRE IMPRIMATUR | 91 |
Reinventing Theatre via the Printing Press | 93 |
Critical Law Theatrical License | 113 |
Accurate Texts Authoritative Editions | 129 |
THE SENSES OF MEDIA | 145 |
Dramatists Poets and Other Scribblers | 203 |
Who Owns the Play? Pirate Plagiarist Imitator Thief | 219 |
Making it Public | 237 |
THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS | 255 |
Scenic Pictures | 257 |
ActorAuthor | 276 |
A Theatre Too Much With Us | 294 |
Epilogue | 308 |
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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2000 |
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