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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... poets—had to find their place. By then (as I will show), the distinction between dramatic text and theatrical ... poetics, and theatrical images on the performance culture of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe—their role ...
... poets—had to find their place. By then (as I will show), the distinction between dramatic text and theatrical ... poetics, and theatrical images on the performance culture of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Europe—their role ...
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... Poets, and Other Scribblers,” discusses the claims of dramatic “poets” and usurping “poetesses,” attempting to ... poetic “original” from copy—crucial to the conceptualization of the playtext as authorial property, by nature owned ...
... Poets, and Other Scribblers,” discusses the claims of dramatic “poets” and usurping “poetesses,” attempting to ... poetic “original” from copy—crucial to the conceptualization of the playtext as authorial property, by nature owned ...
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... Poet,” read the accounts of the King's company in , “for the devise of the Land shewes ... and for the printing of the bookes of the Speeches.”8 We have already seen the use of printed texts by sixteenth-century actors of ...
... Poet,” read the accounts of the King's company in , “for the devise of the Land shewes ... and for the printing of the bookes of the Speeches.”8 We have already seen the use of printed texts by sixteenth-century actors of ...
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... poetic vivacity,” Mocenigo will not only be obliging Giunti but doing himself honour in “favoring with [his] grace” Cecchi's volume.47But patrons were not the only objects. Publishing was a trade enterprise from the beginning and ...
... poetic vivacity,” Mocenigo will not only be obliging Giunti but doing himself honour in “favoring with [his] grace” Cecchi's volume.47But patrons were not the only objects. Publishing was a trade enterprise from the beginning and ...
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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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