TY - BOOK ID - 80832448 TI - Inventions of the skin : the painted body in early English drama, 1400-1642 PY - 2013 SN - 9780748670505 0748670505 9780748670512 0748670513 9780748670499 0748670491 0748693750 1299735800 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Theatrical makeup. KW - English drama KW - Body art. KW - Art, Body KW - Body works (Art) KW - Art, Modern KW - Performance art KW - Acting KW - Make-up, Theatrical KW - Makeup, Theatrical KW - Stage makeup KW - Costume KW - Face painting KW - Makeup artists KW - History and criticism. KW - Makeup UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832448 AB - 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. ER -