Sofer, Andrew. <br/><br/>
The Stage Life of Props. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (297 pages) 
 - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series .
 - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472026333 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>European drama - History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2091 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792/.025