Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre /
P.A. Skantze argues that 17th century writers for performance portray a crucial aesthetic tension between motion and fixity, the study argues that this tension is fundamental to our scholarly understanding of performance and culture.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 020338069X 9780203380697 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Making sense; Permanently moving: Ben Jonson and the design of a lasting performance; Predominantly still: John Milton and the sacred persuasions of performance; Theatrically pressed: Pamphletheatre and the performance of a nation; Decidedly moving: Aphra Behn and the staging of paradoxical pleasures; Perpetually stilled: Jeremy Collier and John Vanbrugh on bonds, women, and soliloquies; Epilogue: Making space; Notes; Bibliography; Index.