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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Stevens, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations

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."

Table of 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