Theatre in Handwriting : : Hamburg Prompt Book Practices, 1770s-1820s.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theater Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
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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.