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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... plays like Antonia Pulci's Representation of Saint Guglielma (printed in Florence in numerous editions from the s on), biblical plays, farces, moralities, interludes.23 Large collections began to emerge in the first half of the ...
... plays like Antonia Pulci's Representation of Saint Guglielma (printed in Florence in numerous editions from the s on), biblical plays, farces, moralities, interludes.23 Large collections began to emerge in the first half of the ...
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... plays on the road. An official permit allows an unnamed troupe to play in Saint-Omer, France in , representing “several comedies and moralitiesof which they have exhibited the printed books.”32 The first quartos of The White ...
... plays on the road. An official permit allows an unnamed troupe to play in Saint-Omer, France in , representing “several comedies and moralitiesof which they have exhibited the printed books.”32 The first quartos of The White ...
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... plays and “represent[ing]” them “with [one's] limbs.”36 Drama was understood to play itself out in two arenas—on the stage and on the page. The elaboration of the distinction between text and performance, between the experience of ...
... plays and “represent[ing]” them “with [one's] limbs.”36 Drama was understood to play itself out in two arenas—on the stage and on the page. The elaboration of the distinction between text and performance, between the experience of ...
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... plays; of plays like the twelfth-century Mystery of Adamor The Sacred Resurrection, with their stage directions. There were ornate presentation copies, like the Arras manuscript of Eustache Mercadé's Mystery of the Passion (from the ...
... plays; of plays like the twelfth-century Mystery of Adamor The Sacred Resurrection, with their stage directions. There were ornate presentation copies, like the Arras manuscript of Eustache Mercadé's Mystery of the Passion (from the ...
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... play; recollections for the spectator of past performances; libretti or souvenirs; or quite simply (like other forms of literature) books of pleasure or instruction for readers and listeners. Most plays had multiple purposes; most ...
... play; recollections for the spectator of past performances; libretti or souvenirs; or quite simply (like other forms of literature) books of pleasure or instruction for readers and listeners. Most plays had multiple purposes; most ...
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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