Inventions of the Skin : The Painted Body in Early English Drama /
Stevens, Andrea
Inventions of the Skin : The Painted Body in Early English Drama / Andrea Stevens. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 12 B/W illustrations - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC .
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."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748670499 9780748670505
10.1515/9780748670505 doi
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--17th century.
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
English drama--History and criticism.--To 1500
Theatrical makeup--History.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PN2068
792.02709
Inventions of the Skin : The Painted Body in Early English Drama / Andrea Stevens. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 12 B/W illustrations - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748670499 9780748670505
10.1515/9780748670505 doi
English drama--History and criticism.--17th century
English drama--17th century.
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
English drama--History and criticism.--To 1500
Theatrical makeup--History.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
PN2068
792.02709