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9780199262168

Theatre of the Book 1480-1880 Print, Text and Performance in Europe

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    9780199262168

  • ISBN10:

    0199262160

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-05-15
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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); anexamination 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 moderntheatre, 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 theatricalephemera 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Printing the drama
Experimenting on the page, 1480-1630
Drama as institution, 1630-1760
Illustrations, promptbooks, stage texts, 1760-1880
Theatre imprimatur
Reinventing `theatre' via the printing press
Critical law, theatrical licence
Accurate texts, authoritative editions
The senses of media
The sense of the senses: sounds, gesture and the body on stage
Narrative form and theatrical illusions
Framing space: time, perspective, and motion in the image
The commerce of letters
Dramatists, poets, and other scribblers
Who owns the play? Pirate, plagiarist, imitator, thief
Making it public
Theatrical impressions
Scenic pictures
Actor/author
A theatre too much with us
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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