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UNINA9910458303003321 |
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Sofer Andrew <1964-> |
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Titolo |
The stage life of props [[electronic resource] /] / by Andrew Sofer |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-59406-0 |
9786612594069 |
0-472-02633-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Collana |
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Theater--theory/text/performance |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Theaters - Stage-setting and scenery |
Stage props |
European drama - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-268) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture |
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