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.
| ISBN: | 9780748670499 |
| Publication date: | 10th June 2013 |
| Author: | Andrea Ria Stevens |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: plays and playwrights Theatre studies Literature: history and criticism |
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.
Inventions of the Skin features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Theatre studies, Literature: history and criticism
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Inventions of the Skin was written by Andrea Ria Stevens and published by Edinburgh University Press
Inventions of the Skin has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series
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