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Inventions of the skin
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Andrea Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published book chapters on Cosmetics, Masques and Early Modern Drama.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780748670499
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press, (10 June 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 446 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 22 mm
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