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Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
Andrea Stevens
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Hardcover. Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage. This book focuses on the significance of turning healthy players into bloodied bodies, white players into Africans, and living players into gods, ghosts, statues and corpses. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
This title examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage. The significance of turning healthy players into bloodied bodies, white players into Africans, and living players into gods, ghosts, statues and corpses are the focus of this book. Inventions of the Skin combines archival and materialist work on the early modern history of stage paint with period and contemporary accounts of embodiment and the phenomenology of audience reception. As this study recovers the concrete technology behind this grammar, it demonstrates the shaping influence of cosmetic materiality upon the content and the practical execution of plays. Addressing ... Read more
This title examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage. The significance of turning healthy players into bloodied bodies, white players into Africans, and living players into gods, ghosts, statues and corpses are the focus of this book. Inventions of the Skin combines archival and materialist work on the early modern history of stage paint with period and contemporary accounts of embodiment and the phenomenology of audience reception. As this study recovers the concrete technology behind this grammar, it demonstrates the shaping influence of cosmetic materiality upon the content and the practical execution of plays. Addressing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748670499
SKU
V9780748670499
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About Andrea Stevens
Andrea Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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