Contents
Introduction
Through the Eyes of the Property Director
“Summon up the Blood”: The Stylized (or Sticky) Stuff of Violence in Three Plays by Sarah Kane
Helen’s Theatrical Mêchanê: Props and Costumes in Euripides’ Helen
A Cannonade of Weapons: Signs of Transgression in the Early Commedia dell’arte
Adding Some “PEP” (“Proto-Expressionistic Props”) to the Swedish Stage: Strindberg’s Property Usage and His Intima Teater
Rattle Away at Your Bin: Women, Community, and Bin Lids in Northern Irish Drama
Bearing Witness: The Noose as an Iconic Prop in African American Theatre
Hawaiian Culture Propped High with Meaning: The Lei Hoaka in Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s Emmalehua
Revisiting Eva Marie Saint’s White Glove: On Props, Neurons, Subtext, and Empathy
From Props to Affordances: An Ecological Approachto Theatrical Objects
“Take up the Bodies”: Shakespeare’s Body Parts, Babies, and Corpses
Contributors
