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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... cultural communication during the same period, that someone like John Foxe could see “players” and “printers” (along with “preachers”) as joining forces in the struggle against the antichrist (a “triple bulwark against the triple crown ...
... cultural communication during the same period, that someone like John Foxe could see “players” and “printers” (along with “preachers”) as joining forces in the struggle against the antichrist (a “triple bulwark against the triple crown ...
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... culture” and “print culture,” of the relationships among mass media, politics, and culture, and, not least, in the studies of the early modern dramatic text that have proliferated in the past decade).7 It owes a debt to each of these ...
... culture” and “print culture,” of the relationships among mass media, politics, and culture, and, not least, in the studies of the early modern dramatic text that have proliferated in the past decade).7 It owes a debt to each of these ...
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... culture” across Europe, crushing oral culture in its wake.8Perhaps most important, it is an attempt to situate textual studies (historically and geographically narrow, dominated by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been) ...
... culture” across Europe, crushing oral culture in its wake.8Perhaps most important, it is an attempt to situate textual studies (historically and geographically narrow, dominated by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been) ...
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... culture in the theatre, then, but about the European theatre's resistance to and continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. Whether one thinks of the general changes brought by the press as a revolution, or as part of a ...
... culture in the theatre, then, but about the European theatre's resistance to and continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. Whether one thinks of the general changes brought by the press as a revolution, or as part of a ...
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... 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 theatrical culture. But they ...
... 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 theatrical culture. But they ...
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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