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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... continued to encourage me through the manuscript's numerous mutations, to inspire its better ideas, to chasten its excesses, and to suggest many of its forking paths. Nathaniel Berman, Rüdiger Bittner, John Brewer, Douglas Brooks ...
... continued to encourage me through the manuscript's numerous mutations, to inspire its better ideas, to chasten its excesses, and to suggest many of its forking paths. Nathaniel Berman, Rüdiger Bittner, John Brewer, Douglas Brooks ...
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... continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond. Travelling troupes and scholars, diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of ...
... continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond. Travelling troupes and scholars, diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of ...
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... continued to shape its unfolding history. As the press began to circulate dramatic texts and images of the ancient theatre, as the multiple late-medieval entertainment genres were interwoven with the classical genres in the new plays ...
... continued to shape its unfolding history. As the press began to circulate dramatic texts and images of the ancient theatre, as the multiple late-medieval entertainment genres were interwoven with the classical genres in the new plays ...
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... continued to produce large volumes, noble and impressive editions meant to have a certain grandeur and significance in the library: Encina's Cancionero ( ); Sachs's five-volume Gedicht ( – ); most famous, Jonson's ...
... continued to produce large volumes, noble and impressive editions meant to have a certain grandeur and significance in the library: Encina's Cancionero ( ); Sachs's five-volume Gedicht ( – ); most famous, Jonson's ...
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... Europe. The Germans and Italians, for instance, continued through the. F . . Pierre Levet's illustrated edition of Pierre Pathelin (printed in ). F . . Circe in her garden at the end of. Printing the Drama.
... Europe. The Germans and Italians, for instance, continued through the. F . . Pierre Levet's illustrated edition of Pierre Pathelin (printed in ). F . . Circe in her garden at the end of. 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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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
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