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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... 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.
... 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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... dramatists creating reconstructions of the ancient theatre over the next decades drew on the products of the press, their libraries lined with works on classical architecture and the classical drama.18 People creating theatrical ...
... dramatists creating reconstructions of the ancient theatre over the next decades drew on the products of the press, their libraries lined with works on classical architecture and the classical drama.18 People creating theatrical ...
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... dramatists, actors and spectators in the centuries that followed. My first three chapters are roughly chronological, offering an overview of the history of European dramatic publication (building on the fragmentary accounts of other ...
... dramatists, actors and spectators in the centuries that followed. My first three chapters are roughly chronological, offering an overview of the history of European dramatic publication (building on the fragmentary accounts of other ...
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... dramatist as commercial producer, and at the political and legal culture simultaneously produced by and producing the market-place of print. Chapter 10, “Dramatists, Poets, and Other Scribblers,” discusses the claims of dramatic “poets ...
... dramatist as commercial producer, and at the political and legal culture simultaneously produced by and producing the market-place of print. Chapter 10, “Dramatists, Poets, and Other Scribblers,” discusses the claims of dramatic “poets ...
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... dramatists. But they were also intended for readers: those looking for stories made for reading aloud; those who did not wish to struggle with longer plays, those in search of the comforts of the familiar. Plays, however, that had ...
... dramatists. But they were also intended for readers: those looking for stories made for reading aloud; those who did not wish to struggle with longer plays, those in search of the comforts of the familiar. Plays, however, that had ...
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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