02731nam 2200721Ia 450 991080719930332120200520144314.01-282-59406-097866125940690-472-02633-X10.3998/mpub.11888(CKB)2560000000012979(EBL)3414730(OCoLC)824100725(SSID)ssj0000428732(PQKBManifestationID)11283055(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428732(PQKBWorkID)10424082(PQKB)11699161(MiAaPQ)EBC3414730(OCoLC)615635358(MdBmJHUP)muse9584(MiU)10.3998/mpub.11888(Au-PeEL)EBL3414730(CaPaEBR)ebr10373088(CaONFJC)MIL259406(dli)HEB33750(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001011(EXLCZ)99256000000001297920021118d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe stage life of props /by Andrew Sofer1st ed.Ann Arbor University of Michigan Pressc20031 online resource (297 p.)Theater--theory/text/performanceDescription based upon print version of record.0-472-09839-X 0-472-06839-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-268) and index.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; IndexFresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and cultureTheater--theory/text/performance.TheatersStage-setting and sceneryStage propsEuropean dramaHistory and criticismTheatersStage-setting and scenery.Stage props.European dramaHistory and criticism.792/.025Sofer Andrew1964-1613707Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807199303321The stage life of props4087108UNINA