Theatre of the Book 1480-1880
Print, Text, and Performance in Europe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199262168
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages508 pages
- Size 234x156x27 mm
- Weight 903 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theatre, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press played an essential role in the birth of the modern theatre. Looking at playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera as part of the broader history of theatrical ideas, this illustrated book offers both a history of European dramatic publication and an examination of the European theatre's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print.
MoreLong description:
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.
... a wide-ranging, ambitious, and intellectually-impressive volume ... One cannot but admire the ambition of this study ... well-informed and impressively scholarly ... The Theatre of the Book teaches us much about publishing and drama in Europe over the course of four centuries and helps us to understand their intertwined relationship. It is a formidable piece of work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Printing the drama
Experimenting on the page, 1480-1630
Drama as institution, 1630-1760
Illustrations, promptbooks, stage texts, 1760-1880
II. Theatre imprimatur
Reinventing 'theatre' via the printing press
Critical law, theatrical licence
Accurate texts, authoritative editions
III. 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
IV. The commerce of letters
Dramatists, poets, and other scribblers
Who owns the play? Pirate, plagiarist, imitator, thief
Making it public
V. Theatrical impressions
Scenic pictures
Actor/author
A theatre too much with us
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
