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Stillness in motion in the seventeenth-century theatre

Author: P A Skantze
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 1.
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"Creating an experimental argument for scholarly attention to performance, this book suggests that without knowing how performance creates meaning in reception, our understanding of a century where much of the political, theatrical and social action occurred between audiences and in public spaces is blunted. The focus on performance and reception offers theories on the practice of reading and the frequent use of  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: P A Skantze
ISBN: 0415286689 9780415286688
OCLC Number: 51151005
Description: x, 209 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 1.
Responsibility: P.A. Skantze.
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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  Read more...

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