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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Page v
... translations . April Alliston , Paula Backscheider , Gregory Brown , Ellen Gainor , Angelica Goodden , Mel Gordon ... translator , discussant , and commiserator in the woes of the library . That this book has fewer errors than it might ...
... translations . April Alliston , Paula Backscheider , Gregory Brown , Ellen Gainor , Angelica Goodden , Mel Gordon ... translator , discussant , and commiserator in the woes of the library . That this book has fewer errors than it might ...
Page vii
... Translations , and Citations ix I II 1. Experimenting on the Page , 1480-1630 PRINTING THE DRAMA 66 548 15 2. Drama as Institution , 1630-1760 3. Illustrations , Promptbooks , Stage Texts , 1760-1880 THEATRE IMPRIMATUR 4. Reinventing ...
... Translations , and Citations ix I II 1. Experimenting on the Page , 1480-1630 PRINTING THE DRAMA 66 548 15 2. Drama as Institution , 1630-1760 3. Illustrations , Promptbooks , Stage Texts , 1760-1880 THEATRE IMPRIMATUR 4. Reinventing ...
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... translated back and forth between vernaculars , distributed by the institutional networks of the developing book trade . If it mattered to dramatic performance that scholars from northern Europe travelled through Italy and France to ...
... translated back and forth between vernaculars , distributed by the institutional networks of the developing book trade . If it mattered to dramatic performance that scholars from northern Europe travelled through Italy and France to ...
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... translation between the flat and static image and the deep and mobile stage . The chapters in " The Commerce of Letters " look at the seventeenth- and eighteenth - century dramatist as commercial producer , and at the political and ...
... translation between the flat and static image and the deep and mobile stage . The chapters in " The Commerce of Letters " look at the seventeenth- and eighteenth - century dramatist as commercial producer , and at the political and ...
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... the performing machine and the end of an era in which theatre was seen through , defined by , and understood in relation to the printed text . Note on Editions , Spellings , Translations , and Citations IO Introduction.
... the performing machine and the end of an era in which theatre was seen through , defined by , and understood in relation to the printed text . Note on Editions , Spellings , Translations , and Citations IO Introduction.
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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