Staged properties in early modern English drama / [edited by] Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda.

Other author Harris, Jonathan Gil.
Other author Korda, Natasha.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionx, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history. --To 1625.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. --History and criticism.
English drama--17th century. --History and criticism.
Stage props--England. --History. --16th century.
Stage props--England. --History. --17th century.

Contents Introduction: towards a materialistic account of stage properties / Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda -- Properties of skill: product placement in early English artisanal drama / Jonathan Gil Harris -- The dramatic life of objects in the early modern theatre / Douglas Bruster -- Things with little social life (Henslowe's theatrical properties and Elizabethan household fittings) / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Properties of domestic life: the table in Heywood's A woman killed with kindness / Catherine Richardson -- "Let me the curtains draw": the dramatic and symbolic properties of the bed in Shakespearean tragedy / Sasha Roberts -- Properties in clothes: the materials of the renaissance theatre / Peter Stallybrass -- Women's theatrical properties / Natasha Korda -- Staging the beard: masculinity in early modern English culture / Will Fisher -- Properties of marriage: proprietary conflict and the calculus of gender in Epicoene / Juana Green -- The woman's parts of Cymbeline / Valerie Wayne -- Wonder-effects: Othello's handkerchief / Paul Yachnin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002067370
ISBN0521813220

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