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OverviewTheatre 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julie Stone Peters (, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, NY)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.903kg ISBN: 9780199262168ISBN 10: 0199262160 Pages: 508 Publication Date: 06 March 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Printing the drama 1: Experimenting on the page, 1480-1630 2: Drama as institution, 1630-1760 3: Illustrations, promptbooks, stage texts, 1760-1880 II. Theatre imprimatur 4: Reinventing 'theatre' via the printing press 5: Critical law, theatrical licence 6: Accurate texts, authoritative editions III. The senses of media 7: The sense of the senses: sounds, gesture and the body on stage 8: Narrative form and theatrical illusions 9: Framing space: time, perspective, and motion in the image IV. The commerce of letters 10: Dramatists, poets, and other scribblers 11: Who owns the play? Pirate, plagiarist, imitator, thief 12: Making it public V. Theatrical impressions 13: Scenic pictures 14: Actor/author 15: A theatre too much with us Epilogue Notes Works Cited IndexReviews... 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. Early Modern Literary Studies ... remarkable and wide-ranging. Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement Author InformationJulie Stone Peters is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University NY. Her publications include Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word (Standford UP 1990) and, with Andrea Wolper, Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (Routledge 1995). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |