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Robert Lublin has usefully brought together in a single volume a number of important aspects of costumes on the English stage between the mid-sixteenth century and the closing of the theatres in 1642. His goal is to "make sense of the sartorial logic of the early modern English stage" (2) by addressing two "related questions:" what costumes were worn on the London professional stage and what they meant to the audience (11). Central to this book is "the simple argument that costumes mattered to the early modern English theatrical enterprise" (7). Acting companies spent lavishly on them; actors used them to construct characters; action progressed through changing them, and audiences "understood and appreciated theatrical productions by observing them" (7). Although there is little here that will be new to many scholars in the fields of Shakespeare, costume, or material culture, the book provides a helpful overview of how costumes might have worked on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, assuming that then as now, clothing provides visual codes to audiences about characters. This is not specifically a book about Shakespeare and clothes, but one that, as the title indicates, explores th

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Author

Patricia Lennox

Publisher

Project MUSE

Published

2012

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)