Theatre of the book, 1480-1880 : print, text, and performance in Europe /
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 examinati...
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- Elektronisch E-Book
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Veröffentlicht:
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
- Ausgabe:
- 1st ed.
- Zusammenfassung:
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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.
- Umfang:
- 1 online resource (xi, 494 p. ) ill. ;
- Anmerkungen:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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- English
- Bibliografie:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [444]-485) and index.
- ISBN:
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9780191541926
0191541923
9781280444937
1280444932 - Schlagworte:
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Parallelausgabe: 9780198187141Parallelausgabe: 0198187149
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