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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... (becoming conventional in most places, though not universal, from the mid-sixteenth century on) and (often) inviting illustrations which could advertise the book's contents (Fig. ).17 Book producers were growing freer with white space ...
... (becoming conventional in most places, though not universal, from the mid-sixteenth century on) and (often) inviting illustrations which could advertise the book's contents (Fig. ).17 Book producers were growing freer with white space ...
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... become a regular institution. This meant that, even in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with a developed professional theatre and a large body of printed drama as model, many plays that had found performance venues ...
... become a regular institution. This meant that, even in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with a developed professional theatre and a large body of printed drama as model, many plays that had found performance venues ...
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... become normal, by the s or s, for previously non-publishing professional dramatists to see their work into print, and, by the late seventeenth century, printing seemed the inevitable culmination of the production of a ...
... become normal, by the s or s, for previously non-publishing professional dramatists to see their work into print, and, by the late seventeenth century, printing seemed the inevitable culmination of the production of a ...
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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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