Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre / / P.A. Skantze
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| Autore: |
Skantze P. A. <1957, >
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| Titolo: |
Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre / / P.A. Skantze
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.409 |
| Soggetto topico: | English drama - 17th century - History and criticism |
| Drama - Technique | |
| Theater - England - History - 17th century | |
| Quietude in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre |
| ISBN: | 1-134-44727-2 |
| 0-415-46013-1 | |
| 0-203-38069-X | |
| 1-280-03752-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451399703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 1.