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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... actors in their roles, the posters and playbills, programmes and promptbooks, notation systems for acting, dance, and gesture, theatre calendars, biographies and autobiographies, playlists, scrapbooks, and souvenirs that trace their way ...
... actors in their roles, the posters and playbills, programmes and promptbooks, notation systems for acting, dance, and gesture, theatre calendars, biographies and autobiographies, playlists, scrapbooks, and souvenirs that trace their way ...
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... actors came to rely on printed editions to fill out their repertoires. By the middle decades of the sixteenth century, publishers were regularly producing texts specifically tailored to amateur players, with smaller casts and shorter ...
... actors came to rely on printed editions to fill out their repertoires. By the middle decades of the sixteenth century, publishers were regularly producing texts specifically tailored to amateur players, with smaller casts and shorter ...
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... actors and not relate them to “tragedy” and “comedy” in scenic spaces, however rudimentary those spaces might be. By century's end, “theatre” was a trans-European phenomenon, in which performers and those who wrote for them—players ...
... actors and not relate them to “tragedy” and “comedy” in scenic spaces, however rudimentary those spaces might be. By century's end, “theatre” was a trans-European phenomenon, in which performers and those who wrote for them—players ...
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... acting or conceived as theatrical. There were, of course, specifically dramatic texts to be found: of mysteries ... actors), indicating no more than the order of appearances, general stage directions, and first lines of speeches and ...
... acting or conceived as theatrical. There were, of course, specifically dramatic texts to be found: of mysteries ... actors), indicating no more than the order of appearances, general stage directions, and first lines of speeches and ...
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... (actors, managers); friends of actors or dramatists (or others who might have access to scripts); or playwrights themselves. The distinctions here are, in some ways, artificial: many of the professional playwrights writing for companies ...
... (actors, managers); friends of actors or dramatists (or others who might have access to scripts); or playwrights themselves. The distinctions here are, in some ways, artificial: many of the professional playwrights writing for companies ...
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 |
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