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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... Space : Time , Perspective , and Motion in the Image 147 166 181 THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS 10. Dramatists , Poets , and Other Scribblers II . Who Owns the Play ? Pirate , Plagiarist , Imitator , Thief 12. Making it Public 203 219 237 ...
... Space : Time , Perspective , and Motion in the Image 147 166 181 THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS 10. Dramatists , Poets , and Other Scribblers II . Who Owns the Play ? Pirate , Plagiarist , Imitator , Thief 12. Making it Public 203 219 237 ...
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... spaces in which the books of Terence, Plautus, and Seneca could be brought to life. The new books were to enshrine ... space (the shabby peaked roofs, with their few gawky inhabitants dressed in old-fashioned cap and bonnet, crouching ...
... spaces in which the books of Terence, Plautus, and Seneca could be brought to life. The new books were to enshrine ... space (the shabby peaked roofs, with their few gawky inhabitants dressed in old-fashioned cap and bonnet, crouching ...
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... spaces, however rudimentary those spaces might be. By century's end, “theatre” was a trans-European phenomenon, in which performers and those who wrote for them—players, revels masters, dramatic poets—had to find their place. By then ...
... spaces, however rudimentary those spaces might be. By century's end, “theatre” was a trans-European phenomenon, in which performers and those who wrote for them—players, revels masters, dramatic poets—had to find their place. By then ...
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... space and stage space: the creation of the focused and single-perspective view, framed by the “frontispiece” (theoretically protected from extra-scenic distraction and stilled in time); the graphic mapping of plot and spectacle; and the ...
... space and stage space: the creation of the focused and single-perspective view, framed by the “frontispiece” (theoretically protected from extra-scenic distraction and stilled in time); the graphic mapping of plot and spectacle; and the ...
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... spaces have been left in the commentary for Greek words to be entered by hand.14 Even in books not intended for scholarly readers, printers often left room for scribal completion. In The Nature of the Four Elements, printed by John ...
... spaces have been left in the commentary for Greek words to be entered by hand.14 Even in books not intended for scholarly readers, printers often left room for scribal completion. In The Nature of the Four Elements, printed by John ...
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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