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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... kind of troupes Aminadab in Middleton's The Mayor of Queenboroughdescribes as “country comedians” who “abuse simple people with a printed play or two, which they bought at Canterbury for sixpence.”34 Print, then, was central to the late ...
... kind of troupes Aminadab in Middleton's The Mayor of Queenboroughdescribes as “country comedians” who “abuse simple people with a printed play or two, which they bought at Canterbury for sixpence.”34 Print, then, was central to the late ...
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... kind that would have been likely to perform the Very Excellent and Sacred Mystery of the Old Testament which explains (in the Paris edition): “Note that whoever plays the character of God must be at the opening here all alone in ...
... kind that would have been likely to perform the Very Excellent and Sacred Mystery of the Old Testament which explains (in the Paris edition): “Note that whoever plays the character of God must be at the opening here all alone in ...
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... kind oldudlabyr Wadmanfic all cty rollcolor Dictig Tid nadbriefleri OE Gobielt in Fälttrane lui kind Ogos relind ein cessoblud ind foot cdo wc grolle dag Tonkinden kumipjij acht yndtag 3180 Folieb erbarmen it Ein gewontattkozund ger ...
... kind oldudlabyr Wadmanfic all cty rollcolor Dictig Tid nadbriefleri OE Gobielt in Fälttrane lui kind Ogos relind ein cessoblud ind foot cdo wc grolle dag Tonkinden kumipjij acht yndtag 3180 Folieb erbarmen it Ein gewontattkozund ger ...
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... kind of understanding London companies had, managers seem to have felt it important that their material be exclusive and that they secure exclusivity contractually, as did, for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book ...
... kind of understanding London companies had, managers seem to have felt it important that their material be exclusive and that they secure exclusivity contractually, as did, for instance, the heads of the various. F . . The book ...
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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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