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This work examines the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts from the theatre to the printing-house (and back again) in the 16th and 17th centuries. In exploring this theme Proessor Chartier touches on a wide variety of examples and topics drawn from the golden age of European drama, including the work of Shakespeare and the Jacobean theatre, Lope de Vega, and Moliere: punctuation as a form of orality in written texts, memorial reconstrution of theatrical performances, authorship, ownership and piracy of printed plays, the functions of plays for audiences and readers, the significance of performance history, manuscript marginalia as evidence for the cultural contexts of reception and interpretation. The result is a thought-provoking study of the endlessly generative cultural instability of all texts and their material forms.

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Author:   Roger Chartier
Publisher:   British Library Publishing
Imprint:   The British Library Publishing Division
Volume:   v. 14
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9780712346351

ISBN 10:   071234635
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   01 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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