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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... Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc. , New York © Julie Stone Peters 2000 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press ( maker ) First published 2000 All rights ...
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... (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 theatre is inside out, with the ...
... (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 theatre is inside out, with the ...
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... published in and often reprinted in the sixteenth century.20 The humanist comedies and tragedies played on experimental stages across Europe were starting to be published in the late fifteenth century: Jakob Wimpheling's Stilpho ...
... published in and often reprinted in the sixteenth century.20 The humanist comedies and tragedies played on experimental stages across Europe were starting to be published in the late fifteenth century: Jakob Wimpheling's Stilpho ...
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... published in the major European vernaculars, joining the proliferating number of dramatic essays and treatises on theatre architecture.22 But non-humanist plays were also printed from the beginning: by the late fifteenth century, the ...
... published in the major European vernaculars, joining the proliferating number of dramatic essays and treatises on theatre architecture.22 But non-humanist plays were also printed from the beginning: by the late fifteenth century, the ...
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... published between and .31 Troupes regularly used printed plays on the road. An official permit allows an unnamed troupe to play in Saint-Omer, France in , representing “several comedies and moralitiesof which ...
... published between and .31 Troupes regularly used printed plays on the road. An official permit allows an unnamed troupe to play in Saint-Omer, France in , representing “several comedies and moralitiesof which ...
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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