Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880

Name: Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Brand: Oxford University Press (UK)
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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, farfrom 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 inopposition 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.

Product details

Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 508
Release Date:: 2001-01-11
Publication Date:: 2014-06-03
Publisher:: Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198187149
ISBN13:: 9780198187141
Weight:: 922 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 32 cm

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