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



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Autore: Skantze P. A. <1957, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre / / P.A. Skantze Visualizza cluster
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
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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
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Serie: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 1.