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Inventions of the Skin
The Painted Body in Early English Drama
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Edinburgh University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35009825
EAN: 9780748670499
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Andrea Stevens
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 192