Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeTheatre 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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... as corrective to the static aesthetic model. It is a contribution to the ongoing revision of the broad-brush characterization of the speech/writing relation—the portrait of the unvarying dominance of European “phonocentrism.
... as corrective to the static aesthetic model. It is a contribution to the ongoing revision of the broad-brush characterization of the speech/writing relation—the portrait of the unvarying dominance of European “phonocentrism.
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That said, in the chapters that follow I have (out of an aesthetic preference for historical narrative that has fully assimilated its meta-narrative) left out further discussion of the theoretical and methodological concerns that have ...
That said, in the chapters that follow I have (out of an aesthetic preference for historical narrative that has fully assimilated its meta-narrative) left out further discussion of the theoretical and methodological concerns that have ...
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... conceptual paradigms, and aesthetic forms, and recombining and remaking them in constantly shifting ways. Insofar as there were “developments” in any sense, they were constructed by those looking back on their own history, ...
... conceptual paradigms, and aesthetic forms, and recombining and remaking them in constantly shifting ways. Insofar as there were “developments” in any sense, they were constructed by those looking back on their own history, ...
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The chapters in “The Senses of Media” discuss the ways in which Renaissance theatrical aesthetics and the understanding of its particular media were shaped through the contrast between theatrical reception and reading and through the ...
The chapters in “The Senses of Media” discuss the ways in which Renaissance theatrical aesthetics and the understanding of its particular media were shaped through the contrast between theatrical reception and reading and through the ...
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... inherent powers of the theatrical (in formal aesthetics as well as stage practice) and the resulting articulation of an idealist aesthetics married to a theatricalism that could be key to the spectator's transcendent imagination.
... inherent powers of the theatrical (in formal aesthetics as well as stage practice) and the resulting articulation of an idealist aesthetics married to a theatricalism that could be key to the spectator's transcendent imagination.
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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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| Title | Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe |
| Author | Julie Stone Peters |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0191541923, 9780191541926 |
| Length | 494 pages |
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