{"product_id":"inventions-of-the-skin-andrea-stevens-9780748670499","title":"Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExamines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventions of the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Transfiguration of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e; bloodiness in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, specifically blood's unexpected role as a device for disguise in plays such as\u003ci\u003e Look About You\u003c\/i\u003e (anon.) and Shakespeare's\u003ci\u003e Coriolanus\u003c\/i\u003e; racial masquerade within seventeenth-century court performances and popular plays, from Ben Jonson's \u003ci\u003eMasque of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e to William Berkeley's\u003ci\u003e The Lost Lady\u003c\/i\u003e; and finally whiteface, death, and \"stoniness\" in Thomas Middleton's \u003ci\u003eThe Second Maiden's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e and Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Stevens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748670491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748670499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Andrea Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46383865757951,"sku":"9780748670499","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c3fc6a1-a969-46ec-b56e-a1a5ae66c1b3.jpg?v=1733281907","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventions-of-the-skin-andrea-stevens-9780748670499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}