Theatre of the Book 1480–1880
Print, Text and Performance in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23447372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Stone Peters (0009-0007-9194-3838, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 512 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Theatre of the Book 1480-1880 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262168.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2486323346 |
| ISBN | 9780199262168 |
| Open Library | OL7404273M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This is an account of the entangled histories of print and the theatre in Europe between the Renaissance and the late 19th 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, the book examines the European theatre's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print.
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Drama · Ephemera · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics) · Portrait · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Historical and Linguistic Studies · 792/.094/0903 · Europe · European drama · History · History and criticism · Pn1821 .p48 2000 · Printing · Publishers and publishing · Theater
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |