{"product_id":"staged-properties-in-early-modern-english-drama-hardback-9780521813228","title":"Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (Hardback) 9780521813228","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStaged Properties in Early Modern English Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic roles of stage properties in early modern English drama.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Gil Harris (Edited by), Natasha Korda (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521813228, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 January 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages, 8 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.7 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'For anyone who thought the early modern actor stood in a 'wooden O', this book is a must.' Journal of New Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis collection of essays studies the material, economic and dramatic roles played by stage properties in early modern English drama. Often, 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 which has mainly 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 theatre in London.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: towards a materialist account of stage properties Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Histories: 2. Properties of skill: product placement in early English artisanal drama Jonathan Gil Harris\u003cbr\u003e 3. The dramatic life of objects in the early modern theatre Douglas Bruster\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Furniture: 4. Things with little social life (Henslowe's theatrical properties and Elizabethan household fittings) Lena Cowen Orlin\u003cbr\u003e 5. Properties of domestic life: the table in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness Catherine Richardson\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Let me the curtains draw': the dramatic and symbolic properties of the bed in Shakespearean tragedy Sasha Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Costumes: 7. Properties in clothes: the materials of the Renaissance theatre Peter Stallybrass\u003cbr\u003e 8. Women's theatrical properties Natasha Korda\u003cbr\u003e 9. Staging the beard: masculinity in early modern English culture Will Fisher\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Hand Properties: 10. Properties of marriage: proprietary conflict and the calculus of gender in Epicoene Juana Green\u003cbr\u003e 11. The woman's parts of Cymbeline Valerie Wayne\u003cbr\u003e 12. Wonder-effects: Othello's handkerchief Paul Yachnin\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265139462424,"sku":"9780521813228","price":106.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521813228i.jpg?v=1692019843","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/staged-properties-in-early-modern-english-drama-hardback-9780521813228","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}