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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... dramatic and theatrical printing , their embodied lives in books and in scripts , in theatres and scenes are at the centre of this study : the dramatic texts , the engravings of theatre architecture , the stage designs , the images of ...
... dramatic and theatrical printing , their embodied lives in books and in scripts , in theatres and scenes are at the centre of this study : the dramatic texts , the engravings of theatre architecture , the stage designs , the images of ...
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... dramatic essays and treatises on theatre architecture . " But non - humanist plays were also printed from the beginning : by the late fifteenth century , the presses were producing mysteries like Jean Michel and Arnoul Gréban's the ...
... dramatic essays and treatises on theatre architecture . " But non - humanist plays were also printed from the beginning : by the late fifteenth century , the presses were producing mysteries like Jean Michel and Arnoul Gréban's the ...
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... dramatic poets - had to find their place . By then ( as I will show ) , the distinction between dramatic text and theatrical perfor- mance had displaced the medieval distinction between merely reciting plays and " represent [ ing ] ...
... dramatic poets - had to find their place . By then ( as I will show ) , the distinction between dramatic text and theatrical perfor- mance had displaced the medieval distinction between merely reciting plays and " represent [ ing ] ...
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... dramatic author , and the author's " original , " monumentalized in the grand collected edition of the seventeenth century . The chapters in " The Senses of Media " discuss the ways in which Renaissance theatrical aesthetics and the ...
... dramatic author , and the author's " original , " monumentalized in the grand collected edition of the seventeenth century . The chapters in " The Senses of Media " discuss the ways in which Renaissance theatrical aesthetics and the ...
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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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