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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 91
Page 9
... poets” and usurping “poetesses,” attempting to distinguish themselves from the mass of aspiring scribblers, self ... poetic “original” from copy—crucial to the conceptualization of the playtext as authorial property, by nature owned by ...
... poets” and usurping “poetesses,” attempting to distinguish themselves from the mass of aspiring scribblers, self ... poetic “original” from copy—crucial to the conceptualization of the playtext as authorial property, by nature owned by ...
Page 15
... poet (or “maker”) to create the performance from scratch.1Travelling entertainers had to invent their material or find it where they could, in stories from the great “authors,” in jokes and songs heard along the way, in books like the ...
... poet (or “maker”) to create the performance from scratch.1Travelling entertainers had to invent their material or find it where they could, in stories from the great “authors,” in jokes and songs heard along the way, in books like the ...
Page 16
... Poet,” read the accounts of the King's company in , “for the devise of the Land shewes ... and for the printing of the bookes of the Speeches.”8 We have already seen the use of printed texts by sixteenth-century actors of ...
... Poet,” read the accounts of the King's company in , “for the devise of the Land shewes ... and for the printing of the bookes of the Speeches.”8 We have already seen the use of printed texts by sixteenth-century actors of ...
Page 29
... poet” involved (or any identifiable writer at all), there were clearly writers, copyists, printers, and publishers for whom the pecuniary was the primary motive, as the advertising common on title pages suggests. Routes to the printing ...
... poet” involved (or any identifiable writer at all), there were clearly writers, copyists, printers, and publishers for whom the pecuniary was the primary motive, as the advertising common on title pages suggests. Routes to the printing ...
Page 48
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1 | |
11 | |
13 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
acting action actors aesthetic attempt Beaumont and Fletcher become beginning body century Chapter characters claims classical collection Comedies Complete continued contract copies Corneille corrected create critics culture dedication describes directions discussion distinction drama dramatic dramatists early edition eighteenth English explains expression fact figures French gesture give hand identified illustrations imagination imitation important instance Italy John Jonson kind language late later learned letters Library literary living managers manuscript means narrative nature notes offer once original performance period Plautus plays playwrights poem poet poetic poetry preface printed printers production published readers reading reflected Renaissance represented scene scenic seemed seen senses seventeenth Shakespeare similarly space spectators speech stage theatre theatrical things Thomas tion tragedy trans translation various voice writes written