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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... Letters , explains Hart , are the " markes and figures " of the voice : " Seeing then that letters are the figures and colours wherewith 9971 the image of mans voice is painted , you. FIG . 36. Speech rendered visible in Owen Price's The ...
... Letters , explains Hart , are the " markes and figures " of the voice : " Seeing then that letters are the figures and colours wherewith 9971 the image of mans voice is painted , you. FIG . 36. Speech rendered visible in Owen Price's The ...
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... letters as the speach hath voyces , and no more nor lesse . ' Billing itself as describing " divers Characters , by which every part of the voice may be aptly . known and severally distinguished , " Robert Robinson's Art of ...
... letters as the speach hath voyces , and no more nor lesse . ' Billing itself as describing " divers Characters , by which every part of the voice may be aptly . known and severally distinguished , " Robert Robinson's Art of ...
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... Letters " that became so central to the eighteenth century's politically inflected conception of its literary life . The " Republic of Letters " could become , in its eighteenth - century incarnation , an extension of the notion of the ...
... Letters " that became so central to the eighteenth century's politically inflected conception of its literary life . The " Republic of Letters " could become , in its eighteenth - century incarnation , an extension of the notion of the ...
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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