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Zusatztext Remarkable and wide-ranging. Klappentext Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theater, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press played as essential role in the birth of the modern theater. Looking at playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera as part of the broader history of theatrical ideas, this illustrated book offers both a history of European dramatic publication and an examination of the European theater's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 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 Index ...
