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Autore |
Schäfer Martin Jörg |
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Titolo |
Theatre in Handwriting : Hamburg Prompt Book Practices, 1770s-1820s |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism |
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Monografia |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Digital Dataset -- Note on Translations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- I. Setting the Scene: A Manuscript Culture in an "Age of Print" -- II. The Hamburg Theater-Bibliothek Collection and Its Context -- III. Framework and Outline -- Chapter 2. Prompting and Its Written Artefacts: Anecdotal Evidence -- I. Prompting as a "Necessary Evil" in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Theatre -- II. A Question of Honour: Taking Care of the Written Artefacts of Prompting and More -- III. Prompt Books in Reading: At the Prompter's Whim -- Chapter 3. Writing and Paper Practices in the Prompt Books of the Hamburg Theater-Bibliothek -- I. The Format and Use of Prompt Books -- II. Adding and Retracting Dialogue and Stage Directions -- III. Types and Functions of Other Additions and Retractions -- IV. The Material Performance of Prompt Books -- Chapter 4. Creating a Prompt Book, Two at a Time: Scribes and Multi-Layered Revisions for the Hamburg Production of Kotzebue's Die Sonnen-Jungfrau (1790-1826) -- I. Doubling Down: Two Prompt Books for Die Sonnen-Jungfrau at the Theater-Bibliothek -- II. Theater-Bibliothek: 728 as a Not-So-Fair Fair Copy -- III. The Error-Prone Dynamics of Copying: Unintentional Gender Trouble -- IV. Reshaping Theater-Bibliothek: 728 - Tweaking a Play for the Stage -- V. Going It Alone: Fair Copy Theater-Bibliothek: 1460, Assisted Reading, Technical Instructions -- VI. Reworking the Play, Reshaping |
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Theater-Bibliothek: 1460 I: Political Pressure in 1813 -- VII. Reworking the Play, Reshaping Theater-Bibliothek: 1460 II: Discovering the Heroic Dreamer in 1823 -- Chapter 5. Prompt Book Practices in Context: The "Hamburg Shakespeare" between Handwriting and Print, the Audience and Censorship Demands (1770s-1810s and beyond). |
I. The German Shakespeare in Print and Its Relationship to Theatre -- II. The 1776 Hamlet and Its Relationship to Print -- III. The 1776 Othello: Adapting Theater-Bibliothek: 571 from Various Printed Sources -- IV. In Search of an Audience: Hasty Prompt Book Revisions in Theater-Bibliothek: 571 -- V. Prompt Books on the Censor's Desk: Handwriting, Print, and Shakespeare -- VI. A 1778 König Lear Print Copy and Its 1812 Context -- VII. Appeasing the Censor: The Handwritten Revision of Theater-Bibliothek: 2029 in 1812 -- Chapter 6. Doing Literature in Theatre: Schiller's Adaptation of Lessing's Nathan der Weise between Prompting and Stage Managing (1800s-1840s) -- I. A Closet Drama, an Adapter's Work in Progress, and Two Related Written Artefacts -- II. The Author as Adapter: Schiller's Template in Theater-Bibliothek: 1988a and Theater-Bibliothek: 1988b -- III. The Work of the Inspector in Theater-Bibliothek: 1988a -- IV. Transforming a Print Copy into a Prompt Book: Technical Requirements for Creation and Use in Theater-Bibliothek: 1988b -- V. The Evolution of an Adaptation I: Simultaneous or Non-Simultaneous Use -- VI. The Evolution of an Adaptation II: Negotiating Christianity in Public -- VII. Entangled Purposes, Complementary Materialities -- Chapter 7. Outlook -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- I. List of Written Artefacts from the Theater-Bibliothek -- II. List of Databases and Datasets -- III. List of Other Sources. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples of the vast Hamburg »Theatre-Library« from the 1770s to 1820s, this study proposes a transdisciplinary approach towards handwritten artefacts in modern European theatre. Martin Jörg Schäfer and Alexander Weinstock examine the many-handed creation, handwritten transformation and often decades of use of prompt books in a time increasingly dominated by print. This perspective changes our notion of theatre history around 1800 as well as that of literature and authorship. |
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