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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... important ) deliberately to misinterpret it , overlooking the precisions of Horace and Donatus and Vitruvius to serve the needs of the new scenic art . The frontispiece to Johann Grüninger's illustrated edition of Terence , for instance ...
... important ) deliberately to misinterpret it , overlooking the precisions of Horace and Donatus and Vitruvius to serve the needs of the new scenic art . The frontispiece to Johann Grüninger's illustrated edition of Terence , for instance ...
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... important , it is an attempt to situate textual studies ( historically and geographically narrow , dominated by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been ) in the wider European context . That said , in the chapters that ...
... important , it is an attempt to situate textual studies ( historically and geographically narrow , dominated by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been ) in the wider European context . That said , in the chapters that ...
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... important , those attempting to re - create ancient performances on stages in academies , universities , and courts across Europe were drawing their inspiration from the Terence editions and the illustrated editions of Vitruvius that ...
... important , those attempting to re - create ancient performances on stages in academies , universities , and courts across Europe were drawing their inspiration from the Terence editions and the illustrated editions of Vitruvius that ...
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... important culture of manuscript circula- tion , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond . Travel- ling troupes and scholars , diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of theatrical ...
... important culture of manuscript circula- tion , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond . Travel- ling troupes and scholars , diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of theatrical ...
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... important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes . The majority of the material with which I have dealt has not been translated or has been translated badly , so I have ...
... important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes . The majority of the material with which I have dealt has not been translated or has been translated badly , so I have ...
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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