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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... SENSES OF MEDIA 7. The Sense of the Senses : Sound , Gesture , and the Body on Stage 8. Narrative Form and Theatrical Illusions 9. Framing Space : Time , Perspective , and Motion in the Image 147 166 181 THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS 10 ...
... SENSES OF MEDIA 7. The Sense of the Senses : Sound , Gesture , and the Body on Stage 8. Narrative Form and Theatrical Illusions 9. Framing Space : Time , Perspective , and Motion in the Image 147 166 181 THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS 10 ...
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... sense of the inadequacy of the focus on the local alone, my discomfort with the burdening of the single telling instance with a vast historical supernarrative. Like those who have attacked universal models of the impact of literacy and ...
... sense of the inadequacy of the focus on the local alone, my discomfort with the burdening of the single telling instance with a vast historical supernarrative. Like those who have attacked universal models of the impact of literacy and ...
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... Sense of the Senses: Sound, Gesture, and the Body on Stage,” examines the role of print in the representation and notation of theatrical media, looking at the shifting positions of the senses identified with them: the disappearance of ...
... Sense of the Senses: Sound, Gesture, and the Body on Stage,” examines the role of print in the representation and notation of theatrical media, looking at the shifting positions of the senses identified with them: the disappearance of ...
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... sense of what drama was, throughout the period there were numerous playtexts that gave no indication of performance: the many cheaply printed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century saints' plays, for instance, farces, religious and polemical ...
... sense of what drama was, throughout the period there were numerous playtexts that gave no indication of performance: the many cheaply printed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century saints' plays, for instance, farces, religious and polemical ...
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... sense of itself in the centuries that followed...... It is easier to identify the dramatic material published and its look on the page than to identify how that material came to be ...
... sense of itself in the centuries that followed...... It is easier to identify the dramatic material published and its look on the page than to identify how that material came to be ...
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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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
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