Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeOxford University Press, 2000 M11 9 - 494 pages Theatre of the Book is an account of the entangled histories of print and the theatre in Europe between the Renaissance and the late nineteenth century: a history of European dramatic publication (providing comparative and historical perspective to the growing field of textual studies); an examination of the creation of the modern notion of text and performance; and a comparative genealogy of ideas about theatrical and textual reception. 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 continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. |
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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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... English Brothers, Pericles, and King Lear were used as working texts by various touring companies in the s,33the kind of troupes Aminadab in Middleton's The Mayor of Queenboroughdescribes as “country comedians” who “abuse simple ...
... English Brothers, Pericles, and King Lear were used as working texts by various touring companies in the s,33the kind of troupes Aminadab in Middleton's The Mayor of Queenboroughdescribes as “country comedians” who “abuse simple ...
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... English-speaking readers, all material in the text proper is in English, but out of a recognition of the important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes. The majority ...
... English-speaking readers, all material in the text proper is in English, but out of a recognition of the important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes. The majority ...
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... English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke it against their peculiar profit to have them come in Print.”100 There may be insufficient evidence to be certain that it was ...
... English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke it against their peculiar profit to have them come in Print.”100 There may be insufficient evidence to be certain that it was ...
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... English troupes regularly used the material owned by London companies, there is (for whatever reason) no evidence that the London companies particularly minded what went on in the provinces or abroad. But in the less stable theatrical ...
... English troupes regularly used the material owned by London companies, there is (for whatever reason) no evidence that the London companies particularly minded what went on in the provinces or abroad. But in the less stable theatrical ...
Contents
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THEATRE IMPRIMATUR | 91 |
THE SENSES OF MEDIA | 145 |
THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS | 201 |
THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS | 255 |
Epilogue | 308 |
Notes | 313 |
Works Cited | 444 |
Index | 487 |
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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2000 |
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