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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... Europe Julie Stone Peters. *. So OR ho THEATRVM FIG . I. “ Theatrum ” illustrated in Johann Grüninger's 1496 Strasbourg edition of Terence . Introduction In the late fifteenth century, half-improvised farce, costumed civic.
... Europe Julie Stone Peters. *. So OR ho THEATRVM FIG . I. “ Theatrum ” illustrated in Johann Grüninger's 1496 Strasbourg edition of Terence . Introduction In the late fifteenth century, half-improvised farce, costumed civic.
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... edition of Terence, for instance (published in the cosmopolitan city of Strasbourg in 1496) (Fig. 1),3offers a version of Vitruvius'amphitheatre, with the audience gathered in the circular risers and elevated above the scene. But the ...
... edition of Terence, for instance (published in the cosmopolitan city of Strasbourg in 1496) (Fig. 1),3offers a version of Vitruvius'amphitheatre, with the audience gathered in the circular risers and elevated above the scene. But the ...
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... editions of the dramatic Dialogue of Gentleness and Nobilityand his version of the tragicomedy, Calisto and Meliboea ... edition of Vitruvius in the s, which he dedicated to Cardinal Raffaele Riario, the theatrical patron: “You ...
... editions of the dramatic Dialogue of Gentleness and Nobilityand his version of the tragicomedy, Calisto and Meliboea ... edition of Vitruvius in the s, which he dedicated to Cardinal Raffaele Riario, the theatrical patron: “You ...
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... editions: Encina's works appeared in seven editions between and alone; the farce Maistre Pierre Pathelin came out in dozens of editions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Fernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy, the ...
... editions: Encina's works appeared in seven editions between and alone; the farce Maistre Pierre Pathelin came out in dozens of editions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Fernando de Rojas' tragi-comedy, the ...
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... editions of his Architettura; Bernardo Buontalenti's “teatro grande” in Florence, portrayed in Callot's etchings.29 With the establishment of professional troupes and theatres over the course of the sixteenth century, actors ...
... editions of his Architettura; Bernardo Buontalenti's “teatro grande” in Florence, portrayed in Callot's etchings.29 With the establishment of professional troupes and theatres over the course of the sixteenth century, actors ...
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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