Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeTheatre 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); anexamination 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 moderntheatre, 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 theatricalephemera 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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... printed playtexts was particularly large ( as compared with that in later periods ) . ? " There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond .
... printed playtexts was particularly large ( as compared with that in later periods ) . ? " There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation , sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond .
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32 The most important thing about the comedy Eutychia is not that it is by Nicola Grasso but that it is “ transcribed from the copy of the magnifico Messer Hieronymo Staccoli , Gentleman of Urbino.933 We have already seen the collection ...
32 The most important thing about the comedy Eutychia is not that it is by Nicola Grasso but that it is “ transcribed from the copy of the magnifico Messer Hieronymo Staccoli , Gentleman of Urbino.933 We have already seen the collection ...
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2+ As important , words themselves were sounded things , whose connection to music was crucial to their function on the stage . For Aristotle and his Renaissance followers , music generally was important to theatre , but melody and ...
2+ As important , words themselves were sounded things , whose connection to music was crucial to their function on the stage . For Aristotle and his Renaissance followers , music generally was important to theatre , but melody and ...
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Note on Editions Spellings Translations and Citations II | 11 |
Foundations for figs 19 25 the Swedish National Museum Stockholm for figs | 28 |
Foundations for fig 29 the Department of Prints and Drawings British Museum | 48 |
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| Title | Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Authors | Julie Stone Peters, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Julie Stone Peters |
| Contributor | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198187149, 9780198187141 |
| Length | 494 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Renaissance Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / European / General Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism |
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