THEATRE OF THE BOOK, 1480-1880 by Peters, Julie Stone ISBN 0198187149
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This account of print and the theatre in Europe from the Renaissance to the late 19th century is a history of European dramatic publication; an examination of the creation of the modern notion of text and performance; and a comparative genealogy of ideas about theatrical and textual reception.
'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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[edit] Title
THEATRE OF THE BOOK, 1480-1880
[edit] Author
Peters, Julie Stone
[edit] ISBN
0198187149
[edit] Published
09/11/2000
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
85 (GBP)
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85 (GBP)
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