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| | | | | | THE STAGE LIFE OF PROPS | | | By: Andrew Sofer | | | Synopsis | Table of Contents | | | | | | | CONTENTS | | | | | | Introduction: Rematerializing the Prop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 | | | | | 1 Playing Host: The Prop as Temporal Contract on the Medieval Stage | 31 | | | | | 2 Absorbing Interests: The Bloody Handkerchief on the Elizabethan Stage | 61 | | | | | 3 Dropping the Subject: The Skull on the Jacobean Stage . . . . . | 89 | | | | | 4 The Fan of Mode: Sexual Semaphore on the Restoration and | | | Early Eighteenth-Century Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 117 | | | | | 5 Killing Time: Guns and the Play of Predictability on the Modern Stage | 167 | | | | | Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 203 | | Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 251 | | Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 269 |
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