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); an examination 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 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 continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. |
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... manuscript's numerous mutations, to inspire its better ideas, to chasten its excesses, and to suggest many of its forking paths. Nathaniel Berman, Rüdiger Bittner, John Brewer, Douglas Brooks, Marvin Carlson, Roger Chartier, Don ...
... manuscript's numerous mutations, to inspire its better ideas, to chasten its excesses, and to suggest many of its forking paths. Nathaniel Berman, Rüdiger Bittner, John Brewer, Douglas Brooks, Marvin Carlson, Roger Chartier, Don ...
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... Manuscript Library , Columbia University , for fig . 17 ; the British Library for figs . 18 , 26 , 34 , 51 ; the Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ...
... Manuscript Library , Columbia University , for fig . 17 ; the British Library for figs . 18 , 26 , 34 , 51 ; the Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts , Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations ...
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... Manuscript Library , Columbia University ) 18. Norwich Mercury 1036 ( Sat. 24 February 1770 ) , p . 3 , col . 2 ( British Library ) 19. Reichard , Theater - Kalender Plate 1 ( February ) ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public ...
... Manuscript Library , Columbia University ) 18. Norwich Mercury 1036 ( Sat. 24 February 1770 ) , p . 3 , col . 2 ( British Library ) 19. Reichard , Theater - Kalender Plate 1 ( February ) ( Billy Rose Theatre Collection , New York Public ...
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... manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond. Travelling troupes and scholars, diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of theatrical culture. But they now carried ...
... manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond. Travelling troupes and scholars, diplomatic envoys and artists continued to be crucial transporters of theatrical culture. But they now carried ...
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... manuscript of Eustache Mercadé's Mystery of the Passion (from the first quarter of the fifteenth century), with its beautifully rendered illustrations of such scenes as the Procès de Paradis.2 But these were rare. Rare too (before the ...
... manuscript of Eustache Mercadé's Mystery of the Passion (from the first quarter of the fifteenth century), with its beautifully rendered illustrations of such scenes as the Procès de Paradis.2 But these were rare. Rare too (before the ...
Contents
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THEATRE IMPRIMATUR | 91 |
THE SENSES OF MEDIA | 145 |
THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS | 201 |
THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS | 255 |
Epilogue | 308 |
Notes | 313 |
Works Cited | 444 |
Index | 487 |
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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
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