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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... Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Peters , Julie Stone . Theatre of the book , 1480–1880 : print , text , and performance in Europe / Julie Stone Peters . Includes ...
... Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Peters , Julie Stone . Theatre of the book , 1480–1880 : print , text , and performance in Europe / Julie Stone Peters . Includes ...
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... Library, Columbia University Libraries, Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University Libraries, New York Public Library, and Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, as well as those at the other collections on whose resources I have drawn, has ...
... Library, Columbia University Libraries, Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University Libraries, New York Public Library, and Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, as well as those at the other collections on whose resources I have drawn, has ...
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... Library for figs . 8 , 22 , 45 , 47 , 60 ; the Harvard Theatre Collection , Houghton Library , Harvard University , for figs . II , 57 ; the General Research Division , New York Public Library , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ...
... Library for figs . 8 , 22 , 45 , 47 , 60 ; the Harvard Theatre Collection , Houghton Library , Harvard University , for figs . II , 57 ; the General Research Division , New York Public Library , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ...
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... Library , Harvard University ) 2. Le tres excellent & sainct mystere sig . 7 " -8 " ( Folger Shakespeare Library ) 3. Rojas , Comedia ( 1501 edn . ) ( title page ) ( Bibliothèque Nationale ) 4. Sachs , [ Gedicht ] III ( title page ) ...
... Library , Harvard University ) 2. Le tres excellent & sainct mystere sig . 7 " -8 " ( Folger Shakespeare Library ) 3. Rojas , Comedia ( 1501 edn . ) ( title page ) ( Bibliothèque Nationale ) 4. Sachs , [ Gedicht ] III ( title page ) ...
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... Library ) 25. Schinkel , Sammlung Plate 13 ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ) 26. La Danse macabre sig . a2 ' ( British Library ) 27. Terence ...
... Library ) 25. Schinkel , Sammlung Plate 13 ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ) 26. La Danse macabre sig . a2 ' ( British Library ) 27. Terence ...
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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