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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Julie Stone Peters |
ISBN: | 0199262160 9780199262168 |
OCLC Number: | 60447733 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2000. |
Awards: | Winner of The American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin prize for the best book in comparative literary history published between 1999-2002. |
Description: | xi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Julie Stone Peters. |
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... a wide-ranging, ambitious, and intellectually-impressive volume ... One cannot but admire the ambition of this study ... well-informed and impressively scholarly ... The Theatre of the Book teaches us much about publishing and drama in Europe over the course of four centuries and helps us to understand their intertwined relationship. It is a formidable piece of work. * Early Modern Literary Studies * ... remarkable and wide-ranging. * Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement * Read more...

