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Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) - Hardcover

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Stevens, Andrea

 
9780748670499: Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642 (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0748670491 ISBN 13: 9780748670499
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage

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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.



Andrea Stevens is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CultureSeries Editor: Lorna HutsonThese original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on literary texts in English and in a range of vernacular languages. They also deal with the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage.'For anyone interested in the early modern theatrical representation of the body, its multiple transformations and the way paint enabled acting companies and dramatists to effect these transformations, Stevens’ book is essential reading.'Farah Karim-Cooper, Head of Courses and Research, Shakespeare's Globe, London'Stevens’s sensitivity to the pervasiveness of cosmetics as a theatrical technology and a source of theatrical consciousness allows her to expose unthought of layers in familiar and unfamiliar plays alike. This book offers readers new and profound ways of thinking about theatricality itself as a source of identity.'Jeremy Lopez, University of TorontoExamines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stageInventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of body paint from its use within medieval cycle drama to its deployment as a special effect in the popular plays and court masques of the late 1630s. Organised 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, including 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 The 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.Andrea Stevens is Assistant Professor of English, Theatre, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748670491
ISBN 13 
9780748670499
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Anzahl der Seiten
232
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