TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sofer,Andrew
TI  - The Stage Life of Props
T2  - Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Series
SN  - 9780472026333
AV  - PN2091 
U1  - 792/.025 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - European drama - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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ER  -