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 29
... managers were often the ones who brought plays to the press—perhaps more often than not. But there were still the same variety of potential agents: publishers themselves, who might seek out manuscripts; those in companies who had access ...
... managers were often the ones who brought plays to the press—perhaps more often than not. But there were still the same variety of potential agents: publishers themselves, who might seek out manuscripts; those in companies who had access ...
Page 30
... managers or actors might bring a play to a publisher, who would buy it for a small sum, the promise of a number of copies, or future interest in sales. Manuscripts that ended up in printers' hands might be company playtexts, author ...
... managers or actors might bring a play to a publisher, who would buy it for a small sum, the promise of a number of copies, or future interest in sales. Manuscripts that ended up in printers' hands might be company playtexts, author ...
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... managers: base people these, without a calling, and many of whom have been jail-birds.”65According to Lope and others, in Spain it was common practice to patch together plays partly by memorial reconstruction of plots and verses, partly ...
... managers: base people these, without a calling, and many of whom have been jail-birds.”65According to Lope and others, in Spain it was common practice to patch together plays partly by memorial reconstruction of plots and verses, partly ...
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... manager's rejection (“if you find that [the plays] have anything good in them,” writes Cervantes to his readers after his interludes were rejected by the theatre, “when you see my cursed theatre manager, tell him to mend his ways”).105 ...
... manager's rejection (“if you find that [the plays] have anything good in them,” writes Cervantes to his readers after his interludes were rejected by the theatre, “when you see my cursed theatre manager, tell him to mend his ways”).105 ...
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... managers seem to have felt it important that their material be exclusive and that they secure exclusivity contractually, as did, for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova ...
... managers seem to have felt it important that their material be exclusive and that they secure exclusivity contractually, as did, for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova ...
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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