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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... theatre and a large body of printed drama as model, many plays that had found performance venues still remained unprinted. Only a few of the plays at the Red Bull, Curtain, and Swan performed between and were printed ...
... theatre and a large body of printed drama as model, many plays that had found performance venues still remained unprinted. Only a few of the plays at the Red Bull, Curtain, and Swan performed between and were printed ...
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... theatres—plays like Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess ( )—could circulate in fairly large numbers, belying claims to exclusivity (one manuscript copy of A Game at Chess, suppressed by the government, brags: “This, which nor ...
... theatres—plays like Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess ( )—could circulate in fairly large numbers, belying claims to exclusivity (one manuscript copy of A Game at Chess, suppressed by the government, brags: “This, which nor ...
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... theatres (with their now-conventionalized formats), there were pageant books, operas, Italian festival books ... Theatre de P. Corneille (Fig. ), and a vast array of theatrical ephemera. It had become normal, by the s ...
... theatres (with their now-conventionalized formats), there were pageant books, operas, Italian festival books ... Theatre de P. Corneille (Fig. ), and a vast array of theatrical ephemera. It had become normal, by the s ...
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... in 1639) 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.
... in 1639) 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.
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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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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2000 |
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