The Stage Life of Props (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) - Tapa blanda

Sofer, Andrew

 
9780472068395: The Stage Life of Props (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
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ISBN 10: 0472068393 ISBN 13: 9780472068395
Editorial: The University of Michigan Press, 2003

Sinopsis

In The Stage Life of Props, Andrew Sofer aims to restore to certain props the performance dimensions that literary critics are trained not to see, then to show that these props are not just accessories, but time machines of the theater.
Using case studies that explore the Eucharistic wafer on the medieval stage, the bloody handkerchief on the Elizabethan stage, the skull on the Jacobean stage, the fan on the Restoration and early eighteenth-century stage, and the gun on the modern stage, Andrew Sofer reveals how stage props repeatedly thwart dramatic convention and reinvigorate theatrical practice.
While the focus is on specific objects, Sofer also gives us a sweeping history of half a millennium of stage history as seen through the device of the prop, revealing that as material ghosts, stage props are a way for playwrights to animate stage action, question theatrical practice, and revitalize dramatic form.
Andrew Sofer is Assistant Professor of English, Boston College. He was previously a stage director.

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Andrew Sofer is Associate Professor of English, Boston College. He was previously a stage director.

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Editorial
The University of Michigan Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0472068393
ISBN 13 
9780472068395
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Número de páginas
272
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