TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Andrea
TI  - Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
SN  - 9780748670499
AV  - PN2068 
U1  - 792.02709 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English drama
KW  - 17th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Theatrical makeup
KW  - History
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748670505?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748670505
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748670505/original
ER  -