Theatre of the book, 1480-1880 : print, text, and performance in Europe / Julie Stone Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Julie Stone.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European drama--History and criticism.

European drama.

Printing--Europe--History.

Printing.

Europe.

History.

Theater--Europe--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

xi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Experimenting on the page, 1480-1630

Drama as institution, 1630-1760

Illustrations, promptbooks, stage texts, 1760-1880

Reinventing "theatre" via the printing press

Critical law, theatrical licence

Accurate texts, authoritative editions

The sense of the senses: sound, gesture, and the body on stage

Narrative form and theatrical illusions

Framing space: time, perspective, and motion in the image

Dramatists, poets, and other scribblers

Who owns the play? Pirate, plagiarist, imitator, thief

Making it public

Scenic pictures

Actor/author

A theatre too much with us.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [444]-485) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0198187149

OCLC:

44014626