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Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama

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Jonathan Gil Harris, Natasha Korda, Douglas Bruster, Lena Cowen Orlin, Catherine Richardson, Sasha Roberts, Peter Stallybrass, Will Fisher, Juana Green, Valerie Wayne, Paul Yachnin
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  • Date Published: November 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521032094

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  • 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.

    • Offers a book-length history of stage properties
    • Brings together a number of disciplines: theatre history, cultural history and literary criticism
    • Includes work from team of senior scholars including Peter Stallybrass, Valerie Wayne and Lena Cowen Orlin
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    Reviews & endorsements

    "[T]he collection makes a valuable contribution to the study of early modern drama and to an understanding of the uses and variety of materialist methodologies. Not only are the methodologies set out clearly, but their use in specific instances provides helpful models for those who are pursuing similar lines of research." M.G. Aune, North Dakota State University, Sixteenth Century Journal

    "An outstanding anthology which achieves a newly energized convergence between cultural materialism and theater/performance history. [...] The book's rich essays develop a range of possible materialist engagements with the materiality of stage properties." Studies in English Literature

    "Staged Properties in Early Modern English is a truly excellent anthology, one that delivers on its promised aims, and I can guarantee that its readers will learn a great deal from the essays."
    Peter C. Herman, Comparative Drama

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    • Date Published: November 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521032094
    • length: 360 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 154 x 21 mm
    • weight: 0.544kg
    • contains: 8 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

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    1. Introduction: towards a materialist account of stage properties Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda
    Part I. Histories:
    2. Properties of skill: product placement in early English artisanal drama Jonathan Gil Harris
    3. The dramatic life of objects in the early modern theatre Douglas Bruster
    Part II. Furniture:
    4. Things with little social life (Henslowe's theatrical properties and Elizabethan household fittings) Lena Cowen Orlin
    5. Properties of domestic life: the table in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness Catherine Richardson
    6. 'Let me the curtains draw': the dramatic and symbolic properties of the bed in Shakespearean tragedy Sasha Roberts
    Part III. Costumes:
    7. Properties in clothes: the materials of the Renaissance theatre Peter Stallybrass
    8. Women's theatrical properties Natasha Korda
    9. Staging the beard: masculinity in early modern English culture Will Fisher
    Part IV. Hand Properties:
    10. Properties of marriage: proprietary conflict and the calculus of gender in Epicoene Juana Green
    11. The woman's parts of Cymbeline Valerie Wayne
    12. Wonder-effects: Othello's handkerchief Paul Yachnin
    Appendix
    Index.

  • Editors

    Jonathan Gil Harris, Ithaca College, New York
    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.

    Natasha Korda, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
    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.

    Contributors

    Jonathan Gil Harris, Natasha Korda, Douglas Bruster, Lena Cowen Orlin, Catherine Richardson, Sasha Roberts, Peter Stallybrass, Will Fisher, Juana Green, Valerie Wayne, Paul Yachnin

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