Abstract
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.
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