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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... Shakespeare Library , Harvard University Libraries , New York Public Library , and Staatsbibliothek in Berlin , as well as those at the other collections on whose resources I have drawn , has been invaluable . The American Council of ...
... Shakespeare Library , Harvard University Libraries , New York Public Library , and Staatsbibliothek in Berlin , as well as those at the other collections on whose resources I have drawn , has been invaluable . The American Council of ...
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... Shakespeare Library ) 3. Rojas , Comedia ( 1501 edn . ) ( title page ) ( Bibliothèque Nationale ) 4. Sachs , [ Gedicht ] III ( title page ) ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) 5. Maistre Pierre Pathelin sig . B6 ( Bibliothèque ...
... Shakespeare Library ) 3. Rojas , Comedia ( 1501 edn . ) ( title page ) ( Bibliothèque Nationale ) 4. Sachs , [ Gedicht ] III ( title page ) ( Houghton Library , Harvard University ) 5. Maistre Pierre Pathelin sig . B6 ( Bibliothèque ...
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... 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 Danse macabre sig . a2 " ( British Library ) 27 ...
... 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 Danse macabre sig . a2 " ( British Library ) 27 ...
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... pp . 368–9 ) ( Widener Library , Harvard University ) 60. Shakespeare , Dramatic III ( frontispiece ) ( Henry E. Huntington Library ) 284 285 295 THEATRVM FIG . 1. " Theatrum " illustrated in Johann List of Illustrations xi.
... pp . 368–9 ) ( Widener Library , Harvard University ) 60. Shakespeare , Dramatic III ( frontispiece ) ( Henry E. Huntington Library ) 284 285 295 THEATRVM FIG . 1. " Theatrum " illustrated in Johann List of Illustrations xi.
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... Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been ) in the wider European context . That said , in the chapters that follow I have ( out of an aesthetic preference for his- torical narrative that has fully assimilated its meta ...
... Shakespeare and his contemporaries as they have been ) in the wider European context . That said , in the chapters that follow I have ( out of an aesthetic preference for his- torical narrative that has fully assimilated its meta ...
Contents
Experimenting on the Page 14801630 | 15 |
Drama us Institution 16301760 | 41 |
Illustrations Promptbooks Stage Texts 17601880 | 66 |
THEATRE IMPRIMATUR | 91 |
Reinventing Theatre via the Printing Press | 93 |
Critical Law Theatrical License | 113 |
Accurate Texts Authoritative Editions | 129 |
THE SENSES OF MEDIA | 145 |
Dramatists Poets and Other Scribblers | 203 |
Who Owns the Play? Pirate Plagiarist Imitator Thief | 219 |
Making it Public | 237 |
THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS | 255 |
Scenic Pictures | 257 |
ActorAuthor | 276 |
A Theatre Too Much With Us | 294 |
Epilogue | 308 |
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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2000 |
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