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Inventions of the Skin : The Painted Body in Early English Drama / Andrea Stevens.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 12 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748670499
  • 9780748670505
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.02709 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2068
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Light: Staging Divinity in the York Cycle -- Chapter 2 Blood: Enter Martius, Painted -- Chapter 3 Black: Mastering Masques of Blackness -- Chapter 4 Stone: Lost Ladies -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stageInventions 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Light: Staging Divinity in the York Cycle -- Chapter 2 Blood: Enter Martius, Painted -- Chapter 3 Black: Mastering Masques of Blackness -- Chapter 4 Stone: Lost Ladies -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

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Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stageInventions 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."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)