Theatre of the Book 1480-1880: Print, Text and Performance in Europe [Hardcover]

Julie Stone Peters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0198187149 | ISBN-13: 978-0198187141

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.

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"The Theatre of the Book does what no other book has done so well: gather an account of the relationship between the rise of printed drama and theatrical practice. It's absorbing reading, richly detailed and illustrated, and should promote ongoing consideration of the mutual abrasion of these two long-lived (and now often-maligned) institutions."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

About the Author

Julie Stone Peters is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, NY.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198187149
• ISBN-13: 978-0198187141
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,172,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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