1st Edition

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre

By P.A. Skantze Copyright 2003
220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction



Prologue: Making Sense



1. Permanently Moving: Ben Jonson and the Design of a Lasting Performance



2. Predominantly Still: John Milton and the Sacred Persuasion in 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

Biography

P.A. Skantze is an independent scholar and director working in Rome. Currently a Fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia University in 2003, she was a Fulbright senior research fellow in 2002 working on a project on the European Union, transnational identity and theatre festivals.