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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791231903321

Autore

Sofer Andrew <1964->

Titolo

The stage life of props / / by Andrew Sofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2003

ISBN

1-282-59406-0

9786612594069

0-472-02633-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Theater--theory/text/performance

Disciplina

792/.025

Soggetti

Theaters - Stage-setting and scenery

Stage props

European drama - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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