Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre

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.

• IntroductionPrologue: Making Sense1. Permanently Moving: Ben Jonson and the Design of a Lasting Performance2. Predominantly Still: John Milton and the Sacred Persuasion in Performance3. Theatrically Pressed: Pamphletheatre and the Performance of a Nation4. Decidedly Moving: Aphra Behn and the Staging of Paradoxical Pleasures5. Perpetually Stilled: Jeremy Collier and John Vanbrugh on Bonds, Women and SoliloquiesEpilogue: Making Space