The Stage Life of Props.

In The Stage Life of Props, Andrew Sofer aims to restore to certain props the performance dimensions that literary critics are trained not to see, then to show that these props are not just accessories, but time machines of the theater. Using case studies that explore the Eucharistic wafer on the me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
Colección:Theater--theory/text/performance.
Temas:
Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery.
Stage props.
European drama > History and criticism.
Accessoires (Cinéma, etc.)
Théâtre européen > Histoire et critique.
European drama
Stage props
Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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