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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... Similarly, the creators of the earliest printed playtexts felt required to explain that a character was about to speak (in Everyman, “God speketh .. .”),27 rather than (as in the texts to which we are accustomed) simply offering an ...
... Similarly, the creators of the earliest printed playtexts felt required to explain that a character was about to speak (in Everyman, “God speketh .. .”),27 rather than (as in the texts to which we are accustomed) simply offering an ...
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... similarly a scholar-printer, printing, for instance, Reformation plays like his own Feeder off the Dead ( ).42 Even dramatists who were not themselves printers had close friends among the printers and probably took their own ...
... similarly a scholar-printer, printing, for instance, Reformation plays like his own Feeder off the Dead ( ).42 Even dramatists who were not themselves printers had close friends among the printers and probably took their own ...
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... similarly offer their book of Shakespeare's plays to “the great Variety of Readers” (that is, buyers) in a preface which follows (and supplants?) the dedication: Read, and censure ... but buy it first. . . . Judge your sixe-pen'orth ...
... similarly offer their book of Shakespeare's plays to “the great Variety of Readers” (that is, buyers) in a preface which follows (and supplants?) the dedication: Read, and censure ... but buy it first. . . . Judge your sixe-pen'orth ...
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... similarly reflect a company-instigated attempt to control or invest in publication (as the King's company did in 1612).95More clearly an attempt to control publication, a Whitefriars contract of 1608(to which several playwrights were ...
... similarly reflect a company-instigated attempt to control or invest in publication (as the King's company did in 1612).95More clearly an attempt to control publication, a Whitefriars contract of 1608(to which several playwrights were ...
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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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