03347nam 2200721Ia 450 991082804480332120200520144314.01-134-44726-41-134-44727-20-415-46013-10-203-38069-X1-280-03752-010.4324/9780203380697 (CKB)1000000000254006(EBL)171355(OCoLC)808013931(SSID)ssj0000310385(PQKBManifestationID)11282555(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310385(PQKBWorkID)10288498(PQKB)11545641(MiAaPQ)EBC171355(Au-PeEL)EBL171355(CaPaEBR)ebr10099872(CaONFJC)MIL3752(OCoLC)53017051(EXLCZ)99100000000025400620021121d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre /P.A. Skantze1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20031 online resource (220 p.)Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;1Description based upon print version of record.0-203-38919-0 0-415-28668-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-201) and index.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; IndexStillness 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 CRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;1.English drama17th centuryHistory and criticismDramaTechniqueTheaterEnglandHistory17th centuryQuietude in literatureEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.DramaTechnique.TheaterHistoryQuietude in literature.822/.40924.11bclSkantze P. A.1957-802598MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828044803321Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre4195082UNINA