Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeOxford University Press, 09/11/2000 - 494 páginas Theatre 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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... English-speaking world, Shakespeare's career has helped to produce one of those enduring lies so convenient to the history of progress: that Renaissance dramatists were unconcerned with the circulation of their work on 4 Introduction.
... English-speaking world, Shakespeare's career has helped to produce one of those enduring lies so convenient to the history of progress: that Renaissance dramatists were unconcerned with the circulation of their work on 4 Introduction.
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... productions in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were the same people committed to seeing ancient plays or commentaries into print. The images that circulated reflected—even if sometimes in distorted form—what humanists ...
... productions in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were the same people committed to seeing ancient plays or commentaries into print. The images that circulated reflected—even if sometimes in distorted form—what humanists ...
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... production of printed playtexts was particularly large (as compared with that in later periods).27 There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond ...
... production of printed playtexts was particularly large (as compared with that in later periods).27 There continued to be an important culture of manuscript circulation, sustaining performance well into the seventeenth century and beyond ...
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... production of plays sprang up. Elaborate perspectival views were created in them. There was more money for costumes and machines. Performances no longer had to wait for festivals, or for a wandering troupe, just arrived in town ...
... production of plays sprang up. Elaborate perspectival views were created in them. There was more money for costumes and machines. Performances no longer had to wait for festivals, or for a wandering troupe, just arrived in town ...
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... production and rapid obsolescence in the merciless economics of both playhouse and Grub Street. Chapter 11, “Who Owns the Play? Pirate, Plagiarist, Imitator, Thief,” explores the repudiation of imitation, the identification of piracy ...
... production and rapid obsolescence in the merciless economics of both playhouse and Grub Street. Chapter 11, “Who Owns the Play? Pirate, Plagiarist, Imitator, Thief,” explores the repudiation of imitation, the identification of piracy ...
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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 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Pré-visualização limitada - 2003 |
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Visualização de excertos - 2000 |
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