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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... . . Circe in her garden at the end of the hall in Baltasar de Beaujoyeulx's Balet comique de la royne ( ). F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova Triumphans. Printing the Drama.
... . . Circe in her garden at the end of the hall in Baltasar de Beaujoyeulx's Balet comique de la royne ( ). F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova Triumphans. Printing the Drama.
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... Thomas Heywood or the editors of the Shakespeare first folio, but also of many others: Ariosto, Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, Jean Mairet.56 Publishers could acquire dramatic manuscripts from someone other than a playwright in a ...
... Thomas Heywood or the editors of the Shakespeare first folio, but also of many others: Ariosto, Lope de Vega, Guillén de Castro, Jean Mairet.56 Publishers could acquire dramatic manuscripts from someone other than a playwright in a ...
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... Thomas Heywood claimed that there were plays in which he “had either an entire hand or at least a maine finger,” but published only about twenty during his lifetime.71 Despite the fact that Alexandre Hardy made an effort to see ...
... Thomas Heywood claimed that there were plays in which he “had either an entire hand or at least a maine finger,” but published only about twenty during his lifetime.71 Despite the fact that Alexandre Hardy made an effort to see ...
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... Thomas Heywood made it clear that he resented company control over the publication of his plays, writing, in his preface to The English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke ...
... Thomas Heywood made it clear that he resented company control over the publication of his plays, writing, in his preface to The English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke ...
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... , for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova Triumphans ( ). F . . Playbill for Robert Howard's The Committee at Lincoln's. Printing the Drama.
... , for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book advertising Thomas Dekker's masque, Troia-Nova Triumphans ( ). F . . Playbill for Robert Howard's The Committee at Lincoln's. Printing the Drama.
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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