Jonathan Gil (Hrsg.) Harris

Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama

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This 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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Korda, Natasha (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-03209-4
EAN: 9780521032094
Produktnummer: 2565406
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 360 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 553 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 553

Über den Autor

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 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.