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Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama

Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama

Stevens, Andrea

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0748670491
ISBN13: 9780748670499
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jun 11 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage
Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this book examine goldface and divinity in York's Corpus Christi play, with special attention to the pageant representing The Transfiguration of Christ; bloodiness in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, specifically blood's unexpected role as a device for disguise in plays such as Look About You (anon.) and Shakespeare's Coriolanus; racial masquerade within seventeenth-century court performances and popular plays, from Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness to William Berkeley's The Lost Lady; and finally whiteface, death, and stoniness in Thomas Middleton's The Second Maiden's Tragedy and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Recovering a crucial grammar of theatrical representation, this book argues that the onstage embodiment of characters--not just the words written for them to speak--forms an important and overlooked aspect of stage representation.

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