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The stage life of props / by Andrew Sofer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sofer, Andrew, 1964-
- Series:
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
- Theater--theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.
- Theaters.
- Stage props.
- European drama--History and criticism.
- European drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-268) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-59406-0
- 9786612594069
- 0-472-02633-X
- OCLC:
- 824100725
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