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.
List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 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.
