The Book in the Age of Theater, 1550-1750 [Paperback]

Larry F. Norman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001

After the construction of the first permanent theater buildings since Antiquity in mid sixteenth-century Italy, drama triumphed throughout Europe, especially in seventeenth-century France, Golden Age Spain, and Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Restoration England. How did the growth of the book industry interact with the evolution of the theater? The Book in the Age of Theater answers this question by exploring the relationship between performance and printing, viewing Renaissance and baroque theater as a unique intersection of social spectacle and literary activity.

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About the Author

Larry Norman is assistant professor of French at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction, published by the University of Chicago Press, and the editor of The Theatrical Baroque.

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Joseph Regenstein Library, The Universit (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0943056276
• ISBN-13: 978-0943056272
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,490,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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