The Stage Life of Props.
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- 9780472026333
- 792/.025
- PN2091
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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