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Costuming the Shakespearean Stage

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Costuming the Shakespearean Stage book

Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture

Costuming the Shakespearean Stage

DOI link for Costuming the Shakespearean Stage

Costuming the Shakespearean Stage book

Visual Codes of Representation in Early Modern Theatre and Culture
ByRobert I. Lublin
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574448
Pages 210 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315574448
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Lublin, R. (2011). Costuming the Shakespearean Stage. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574448

Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary audiences. Robert Lublin's new study considers royal proclamations, religious writings, paintings, woodcuts, plays, historical accounts, sermons, and legal documents to investigate what Shakespearean actors actually wore in production and what cultural information those costumes conveyed. Four of the chapters of Costuming the Shakespearean Stage address 'categories of seeing': visually based semiotic systems according to which costumes constructed and conveyed information on the early modern stage. The four categories include gender, social station, nationality, and religion. The fifth chapter examines one play, Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, to show how costumes signified across the categories of seeing to establish a play's distinctive semiotics and visual aesthetic.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|32 pages

Sex and Gender

chapter 2|38 pages

Social Station

chapter 3|44 pages

Foreigners

chapter 4|40 pages

Religion

chapter 5|18 pages

“An vnder black dubblett signifying a Spanish hart”: Costumes and Politics in Middleton’s A Game at Chess

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