Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeOxford University Press, 09.11.2000 - 494 Seiten 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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... printers” (along with “preachers”) as joining forces in the struggle against the antichrist (a “triple bulwark against the triple crown of the pope”).1The printing press had an essential role to play in the birth of the modern theatre ...
... printers” (along with “preachers”) as joining forces in the struggle against the antichrist (a “triple bulwark against the triple crown of the pope”).1The printing press had an essential role to play in the birth of the modern theatre ...
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... printers and scriptoria began to produce dramatic texts, more people started describing and documenting theatrical events. Performance records from before the late fifteenth century are scarce. Most of what we know of church plays, of ...
... printers and scriptoria began to produce dramatic texts, more people started describing and documenting theatrical events. Performance records from before the late fifteenth century are scarce. Most of what we know of church plays, of ...
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... printers and writers attempted to represent the past simultaneously in a variety of ways, and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users. Classical dramas intended for learned readers, for instance, might in ...
... printers and writers attempted to represent the past simultaneously in a variety of ways, and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users. Classical dramas intended for learned readers, for instance, might in ...
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... printers both to make the book as useful to the reader as possible and, at the same time, to clarify the visual semiotics of the dramatic page. Typography was both order and meaning (though it could struggle between conflicting ...
... printers both to make the book as useful to the reader as possible and, at the same time, to clarify the visual semiotics of the dramatic page. Typography was both order and meaning (though it could struggle between conflicting ...
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... printers' ornaments at the ends of texts or on title pages. Foliation or pagination, indented paragraphs, running titles, catchwords, tables of contents, and indexes contributed to the ease with which the reader could move around in the ...
... printers' ornaments at the ends of texts or on title pages. Foliation or pagination, indented paragraphs, running titles, catchwords, tables of contents, and indexes contributed to the ease with which the reader could move around in the ...
Inhalt
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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 Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
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