Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeIt 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 resistance to and continual refashioning of itself in the world of print."--Jacket. |
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... eighteenth century that they had exerted during the preceding century , a fact evidenced by the near simultaneity of premières and publication dates normal in the eighteenth century . By the eighteenth century , long delays in ...
... eighteenth century that they had exerted during the preceding century , a fact evidenced by the near simultaneity of premières and publication dates normal in the eighteenth century . By the eighteenth century , long delays in ...
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... eighteenth century , if publication for premières was uncommon ( except for opera ) , publishers were bringing plays out very close to the première . Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man ( 1768 ) appeared in print a week after it opened.58 ...
... eighteenth century , if publication for premières was uncommon ( except for opera ) , publishers were bringing plays out very close to the première . Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man ( 1768 ) appeared in print a week after it opened.58 ...
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... eighteenth century . Large format certainly seemed to promise distinguished contents , but scale was not necessarily determinate . With multi - volume octavo as the favourite format for collections in the eighteenth century , folios ...
... eighteenth century . Large format certainly seemed to promise distinguished contents , but scale was not necessarily determinate . With multi - volume octavo as the favourite format for collections in the eighteenth century , folios ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | 11 |
Huntington Library for figs 8 22 45 47 60 the Harvard Theatre Collection | 11 |
Note on Editions Spellings Translations and Citations | 11 |
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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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