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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Page 16
... explaining the spectacle (expansions of the playbills that were used for advertising, and to be sold at the ... explains (in the Paris edition): “Note that whoever plays the character of God must be at the opening here ...
... explaining the spectacle (expansions of the playbills that were used for advertising, and to be sold at the ... explains (in the Paris edition): “Note that whoever plays the character of God must be at the opening here ...
Page 19
... explains that it has now been “edited in a more convenient format.”20 Publishers continued to produce large volumes, noble and impressive editions meant to have a certain grandeur and significance in the library: Encina's Cancionero ...
... explains that it has now been “edited in a more convenient format.”20 Publishers continued to produce large volumes, noble and impressive editions meant to have a certain grandeur and significance in the library: Encina's Cancionero ...
Page 23
... explains, “Here Abraham mad hys offryng, knelyng and seyyng thus: .. .”26 Similarly, the creators of the earliest printed playtexts felt required to explain that a character was about to speak (in Everyman, “God speketh .. .”),27 rather ...
... explains, “Here Abraham mad hys offryng, knelyng and seyyng thus: .. .”26 Similarly, the creators of the earliest printed playtexts felt required to explain that a character was about to speak (in Everyman, “God speketh .. .”),27 rather ...
Page 24
... explain through visual form what narrative descriptions might do at greater length. As readers grew more accustomed ... explaining the play) from the words of the fictional characters. Suffice it to say, here, that the typographic-visual ...
... explain through visual form what narrative descriptions might do at greater length. As readers grew more accustomed ... explaining the play) from the words of the fictional characters. Suffice it to say, here, that the typographic-visual ...
Page 26
... explaining how the play is to be performed: “Here magnyfycence wolde flee hymselfe with a knyfe.” Where they do prescribe tone and emotion, they seem to be doing so for actors: “Here magnyfycence dolorously maketh his mone.”35 Rastell's ...
... explaining how the play is to be performed: “Here magnyfycence wolde flee hymselfe with a knyfe.” Where they do prescribe tone and emotion, they seem to be doing so for actors: “Here magnyfycence dolorously maketh his mone.”35 Rastell's ...
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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