附註:Originally published 2003 by Routledge.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Making sense; Permanently moving: Ben Jonson and the design of a lasting performance; Predominantly still: John Milton and the sacred persuasions of performance; Theatrically pressed: Pamphletheatre and the performance of a nation; Decidedly moving: Aphra Behn and the staging of paradoxical pleasures; Perpetually stilled: Jeremy Collier and John Vanbrugh on bonds, women, and soliloquies; Epilogue: Making space; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
摘要: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.
