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Subject(s)

• English drama—17th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Drama—Technique [Browse]
• Theater—England—History—17th century [Browse]
• Quietude in literature [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 1. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

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

Language note

English

Contents

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

ISBN

• 1-134-44726-4
• 1-134-44727-2
• 0-415-46013-1
• 0-203-38069-X
• 1-280-03752-0

OCLC

• 808013931
• 53017051

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203380697

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