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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... 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 actors in their roles , the posters and playbills ...
... 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 actors in their roles , the posters and playbills ...
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... lives of texts generally ) , they do so in ways that resist easy classification and do not bow to the political lessons for which they are sometimes made to stand . My eclectic , multiplicitous ( often ad hoc ) methodology , eschewing a ...
... lives of texts generally ) , they do so in ways that resist easy classification and do not bow to the political lessons for which they are sometimes made to stand . My eclectic , multiplicitous ( often ad hoc ) methodology , eschewing a ...
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... lives , along with " histories " of " the acts of the Caesars " and " descriptions of the figures of the apocalypse , " with " the cruelties of Nero and Domitian , " " played by characters " in Paris and published in two volumes in ...
... lives , along with " histories " of " the acts of the Caesars " and " descriptions of the figures of the apocalypse , " with " the cruelties of Nero and Domitian , " " played by characters " in Paris and published in two volumes in ...
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... live in fraught relation with the performing machine and the end of an era in which theatre was seen through , defined by , and understood in relation to the printed text . Note on Editions , Spellings , Translations , and Citations IO ...
... live in fraught relation with the performing machine and the end of an era in which theatre was seen through , defined by , and understood in relation to the printed text . Note on Editions , Spellings , Translations , and Citations IO ...
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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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