{"product_id":"inventions-of-the-skin","title":"Inventions of the Skin","description":"Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stageInventions 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507862479221,"sku":"9781399574136","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/inventions-of-the-skin","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}