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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... preface which follows (and supplants?) the dedication: Read, and censure ... but buy it first. . . . Judge your sixe-pen'orth, your shillings worth, your five shillings worth at a time, or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and ...
... preface which follows (and supplants?) the dedication: Read, and censure ... but buy it first. . . . Judge your sixe-pen'orth, your shillings worth, your five shillings worth at a time, or higher, so you rise to the just rates, and ...
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... preface to The English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke it against their peculiar profit to have them come in Print.”100 There may be insufficient evidence to be certain ...
... preface to The English Traveller(1633), that some of his plays “are still retained in the hands of some Actors, who thinke it against their peculiar profit to have them come in Print.”100 There may be insufficient evidence to be certain ...
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... preface to The Family of Love ( ).104Sometimes publication could be used to vindicate a dramatist after a theatrical failure or in the face of a manager's rejection (“if you find that [the plays] have anything good in them ...
... preface to The Family of Love ( ).104Sometimes publication could be used to vindicate a dramatist after a theatrical failure or in the face of a manager's rejection (“if you find that [the plays] have anything good in them ...
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... preface to the fourth volume (which he published instead with David du Petit Val): “The volumes that preceded this one make me blush with shame for the Printers, whose greed did treason to my reputation. [The volumes] are so full of ...
... preface to the fourth volume (which he published instead with David du Petit Val): “The volumes that preceded this one make me blush with shame for the Printers, whose greed did treason to my reputation. [The volumes] are so full of ...
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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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