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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... me in these years . For permission to reproduce the illustrations I would like to thank the following institutions : the Houghton Library , Harvard University , for figs . 1 , 4 , 6-7 , 9-10 , 15-16 , 31-2 , 35-8 , 40-3 , 49 ,
... me in these years . For permission to reproduce the illustrations I would like to thank the following institutions : the Houghton Library , Harvard University , for figs . 1 , 4 , 6-7 , 9-10 , 15-16 , 31-2 , 35-8 , 40-3 , 49 ,
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... the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations , for fig . 58 ; and Widener Library , Harvard University , for fig . 59 . Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Note on Editions , Spellings vi Acknowledgements.
... the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations , for fig . 58 ; and Widener Library , Harvard University , for fig . 59 . Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Note on Editions , Spellings vi Acknowledgements.
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... Illustrations , Promptbooks , Stage Texts , 1760-1880 THEATRE IMPRIMATUR 4. Reinventing " Theatre " via the Printing Press 5. Critical Law , Theatrical Licence 6. Accurate Texts , Authoritative Editions 93 113 129 THE SENSES OF MEDIA 7 ...
... Illustrations , Promptbooks , Stage Texts , 1760-1880 THEATRE IMPRIMATUR 4. Reinventing " Theatre " via the Printing Press 5. Critical Law , Theatrical Licence 6. Accurate Texts , Authoritative Editions 93 113 129 THE SENSES OF MEDIA 7 ...
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... 84 23. Oxberry , ed . , New I [ Rivals 8 , 84 ] ( General Research Division , New York Public Library ) 86 Note : See the Works Cited for full titles of book sources . 24. Corneille , Oeuvres ( 1844 edn . ) 30 List of Illustrations.
... 84 23. Oxberry , ed . , New I [ Rivals 8 , 84 ] ( General Research Division , New York Public Library ) 86 Note : See the Works Cited for full titles of book sources . 24. Corneille , Oeuvres ( 1844 edn . ) 30 List of Illustrations.
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... British Museum ) 277 56. Le Brun , Caracteres no . 13 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) 57. Lang , Dissertatio 51 ( Fig . 7 ) ( Harvard Theatre Collection ) 280 282 1 58. Rameau , Le Maître ( facing p . X List of Illustrations.
... British Museum ) 277 56. Le Brun , Caracteres no . 13 ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) 57. Lang , Dissertatio 51 ( Fig . 7 ) ( Harvard Theatre Collection ) 280 282 1 58. Rameau , Le Maître ( facing p . X List of Illustrations.
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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