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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... Corneille , Le Theatre ( 1664 cdn . ) ( frontispicce and title page ) ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) II . Playbill for Robert Howard's The Committee ( 1697 ) ( Harvard Theatre Collection ) 12. Massinger , Middleton , and ...
... Corneille , Le Theatre ( 1664 cdn . ) ( frontispicce and title page ) ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) II . Playbill for Robert Howard's The Committee ( 1697 ) ( Harvard Theatre Collection ) 12. Massinger , Middleton , and ...
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... Corneille , Oeuvres ( 1844 edn . ) 30 ( Folger Shakespeare Library ) 25. Schinkel , Sammlung Plate 13 ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ) 26. La ...
... Corneille , Oeuvres ( 1844 edn . ) 30 ( Folger Shakespeare Library ) 25. Schinkel , Sammlung Plate 13 ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ) 26. La ...
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... Corneille or Goethe to the voices of “marginal” figures like the cantankerously “learned” Renaissance playwright Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, or the various makers of obscene commedia dell'arte lazzi, or the eighteenth-century actress ...
... Corneille or Goethe to the voices of “marginal” figures like the cantankerously “learned” Renaissance playwright Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, or the various makers of obscene commedia dell'arte lazzi, or the eighteenth-century actress ...
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... Corneille's folio, Le Theatre de P. Corneille (Fig. ), and a vast array of theatrical ephemera. It had become normal, by the s or s, for previously non-publishing professional dramatists to see their work ...
... Corneille's folio, Le Theatre de P. Corneille (Fig. ), and a vast array of theatrical ephemera. It had become normal, by the s or s, for previously non-publishing professional dramatists to see their work ...
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... ) were disseminated only in manuscript until long after the closure of the theatres.8 The actors of the Théâtre Italien (the home of the F . . Corneille's folio collection, Le Theatre de P. Corneille. 42 Printing the Drama.
... ) were disseminated only in manuscript until long after the closure of the theatres.8 The actors of the Théâtre Italien (the home of the F . . Corneille's folio collection, Le Theatre de P. Corneille. 42 Printing the Drama.
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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