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The Stage Life of Props.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472026333
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Stage Life of PropsDDC classification:
  • 792/.025
LOC classification:
  • PN2091
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Rematerializing the Prop -- 1. Playing Host: The Prop as Temporal Contract on the Medieval Stage -- 2. Absorbing Interests: The Bloody Handkerchief on the Elizabethan Stage -- 3. Dropping the Subject: The Skull on the Jacobean Stage -- 4. The Fan of Mode: Sexual Semaphore on the Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century Stage -- 5. Killing Time: Guns and the Play of Predictability on the Modern Stage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Rematerializing the Prop -- 1. Playing Host: The Prop as Temporal Contract on the Medieval Stage -- 2. Absorbing Interests: The Bloody Handkerchief on the Elizabethan Stage -- 3. Dropping the Subject: The Skull on the Jacobean Stage -- 4. The Fan of Mode: Sexual Semaphore on the Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century Stage -- 5. Killing Time: Guns and the Play of Predictability on the Modern Stage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture.

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