Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theater

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Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theater 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 pamphletheater, Aphra Behn, John Vanbrugh and Jeremy Collier and will be of interest to scholars in the areas of literary and performance studies. Cover Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture Full Title Copyright Dedication 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