Theatre in Handwriting : : Hamburg Prompt Book Practices, 1770s-1820s.

• Superior document: Theater Series
• Author: Schäfer, Martin Jörg.
• TeilnehmendeR: Weinstock, Alexander.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Theater Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)

Table of Contents

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 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.