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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... English - speaking world , Shakespeare's career has helped to produce one of those enduring lies so convenient to the history of progress : that Renaissance dramatists were unconcerned with the circulation of their work on 4 Introduction.
... English - speaking world , Shakespeare's career has helped to produce one of those enduring lies so convenient to the history of progress : that Renaissance dramatists were unconcerned with the circulation of their work on 4 Introduction.
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... productions in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were the same people committed to seeing ancient plays or commentaries into print . The images that circulated reflected - even if sometimes in distorted form - what ...
... productions in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were the same people committed to seeing ancient plays or commentaries into print . The images that circulated reflected - even if sometimes in distorted form - what ...
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... production of printed playtexts was particularly large ( as compared with that in later periods ) . " There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circula- tion , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and ...
... production of printed playtexts was particularly large ( as compared with that in later periods ) . " There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circula- tion , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and ...
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... production of plays sprang up . Elabo- rate perspectival views were created in them . There was more money for costumes and machines . Performances no longer had to wait for festivals , or for a wandering troupe , just arrived in town ...
... production of plays sprang up . Elabo- rate perspectival views were created in them . There was more money for costumes and machines . Performances no longer had to wait for festivals , or for a wandering troupe , just arrived in town ...
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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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