Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama Contributor(s): Harris, Jonathan Gil (Editor), Korda, Natasha (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521032091 ISBN-13: 9780521032094 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2006 Annotation: This collection of essays studies the material, economic, and dramatic roles played by stage properties in early modern English drama. The received wisdom about the commercial stage in Shakespeare's time is that it was a bare one, uncluttered by objects. Staged Properties offers a critique of this view. The volume offers valuable evidence and insight into the modes of production, circulation and exchange that brought such properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects and even false beards on to the stage. Departing from previous scholarship focused solely on the symbolic or iconographic aspects of props, these essays explore their material dimensions, and in particular, their status as a special form of property. The volume reflects upon what the material history of stage props may tell us about the changing demographics, modes of production and consumption, and notions of property that contributed to the rise of the commercial theater in London. |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 792 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.16 lbs) 360 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Features: Illustrated |
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Publisher Description: This collection of essays explores the economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. Written by a team of distinguished scholars, the essays explore the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects and even false beards onto the stage. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harris, Jonathan Gil: - Jonathan Gil Harris is Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College. He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England, (1998), as well as numerous articles on Renaissance drama and culture.Korda, Natasha: - Natasha Korda is author of Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England, (2002) and numerous essays on early modern drama and stage history. She is Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University. |
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