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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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Abstract:
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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