Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T13:52:54.839Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

198 - Costume

from Part XX - Changing Technologies of Stage Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Janet Birkett ,
Kate Dorney  and
Catherine Haill
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Keywords

antiquarianarchitectural scenic spaceBaylis, LilianBrecht, Bertoltclothescostumecostume designdecorationElizabethan Stage SocietyGranville-Barker, HarleyGray, Terencehistorical dressJessner, LeopoldKean, CharlesLoutherbourg, PhilipMacready, William Charlesperspective painted sceneryPoel, WilliamRoyal Shakespeare Companyscenographytechnologytheatrical costumiervisual rhetoricwardrobe
Type
Chapter
Information
The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1442 - 1449
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Sources cited

Boaden, James. Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble. London: Robert H. Small, 1825.Google Scholar
Burnim, Kalman A. David Garrick, Director. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1961.Google Scholar
Campbell, Thomas. The Life of Mrs Siddons. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834.Google Scholar
Comyns Carr, Alice. Reminiscences. London: Hutchinson, 1926.Google Scholar
Covent Garden Theatre. Playbill for 8 November 1823. Victoria and Albert Production File for Covent Garden, 1823.Google Scholar
Costume for Volumnia, worn by Evans, Edith 1959. Victoria and Albert Museum, number S.265-1999. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11945/theatre-costume/.Google Scholar
de Marley, Diana. Costume on the Stage, 1600–1940. London: B. T. Batsford, 1982.Google Scholar
Drury Lane Theatre. Bill of sale. 1713. Victoria and Albert Museum MS S.20-2008. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O145055/bill-of-sale.Google Scholar
Arnold, Janet. Salary sheet. Victoria and Albert Museum MS THM/101.Google Scholar
Howard, Susannah. “Dressing the Egyptian Queen.” Around the Globe 11 (autumn 1999): 14–15.Google Scholar
Latham, Robert, and Matthews, William, eds. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. 11 vols. London: Bell and Hyman, 1970–1983.Google Scholar
Milhous, Judith, and Hume, Robert D.. A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660–1737. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.Google Scholar
Mui, Hoh-Cheung, and Mui, Lorna H.. Shops and Shopping in Eighteenth Century England. London: Routledge, 1989.Google Scholar
Nagler, A. M. A Source Book in Theatrical History. New York: Dover, 1959.Google Scholar
Nicoll, Allardyce. The Garrick Stage. Ed. Rosenfeld, Sybil. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1980.Google Scholar
O’Connor, Marion. William Poel and the Elizabethan Stage Society. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1987.Google Scholar
Pearson, Richard. A Band of Arrogant and United Heroes: The Story of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production of “The Wars of the Roses.” London: Adelphi Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Planché, James Robinson. “Dramatic Costume.” The Album. Vol. 3. London: William Clowne, 1823. 289–304.Google Scholar
Planché, James Robinson. Recollections and Reflections: A Professional Autobiography. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872.Google Scholar
Rutter, Carol Chillington. “Unpinning Desdemona (Again).” Shakespeare Bulletin 28.1 (spring 2010): 111–32.Google Scholar
Savoy Theater. Account book 1912–1914. Theater and Performance Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.Google Scholar
Saxe-Wyndham, H. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre. London: Chatto and Windus, 1906.Google Scholar
Schuessler, Melanie. “Costume Design for the Stage in the United States.” Documenting Stage Design. Performing Arts Resources 27. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2010. 26.Google Scholar
Speaight, Robert. William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival. London: Heinemann, 1954.Google Scholar
Van Lennep, William, ed. The London Stage, 1660–1700. With a critical introduction by Avery, Emmett L. and Scouten, Arthur H.. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1965.Google Scholar

Further reading

Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen’s Dresses and Their Construction c.1660–1860. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984.Google Scholar
Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen’s Dresses and Their Construction c.1860–1940. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984.Google Scholar
Ashelford, Janet. The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500–1914. London: Anova Books, 2009.Google Scholar
Friedland, Nancy E., ed. Documenting Costume Design. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2010.Google Scholar
Holland, Peter. “The Age of Garrick.” Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History. Ed. Bate, Jonathan and Jackson, Russell. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 69–91.Google Scholar
Holmes, M. R. Stage Costume and Accessories in the London Museum. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1968.Google Scholar
Hume, Robert D. The London Theatre World, 1660–1800. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.Google Scholar
Laver, James. Costume in the Theatre. London: Harrap, 1964.Google Scholar
Motley, . Designing and Making Stage Costumes. London: Studio Vista, 1964.Google Scholar
Nicoll, Allardyce, and Rosenfeld, Sybil. The Garrick Stage, Theatres and Audience in the Eighteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1980.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×