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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451399703321

Autore

Skantze P. A. <1957, >

Titolo

Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre / / P.A. Skantze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-44727-2

0-415-46013-1

0-203-38069-X

1-280-03752-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 1

Disciplina

822/.409

Soggetti

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Drama - Technique

Theater - England - History - 17th century

Quietude in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Making sense; 1 Permanently moving: Ben Jonson and the design of a lasting performance; 2 Predominantly still: John Milton and the sacred persuasions of performance; 3 Theatrically pressed: Pamphletheatre and the performance of a nation; 4 Decidedly moving: Aphra Behn and the staging of paradoxical pleasures; 5 Perpetually stilled: Jeremy Collier and John Vanbrugh on bonds, women, and soliloquies; Epilogue: Making space; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of acknowledging, reinforcing and making a critique of social values for the still and moving, the permanent and elapsing. The book's analysis covers the entire



seventeenth-century with chapters on the work of Ben Jonson, John Milton, the pamphletheatre, Aphra Behn, John Vanbrugh and Jeremy C