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Costuming The Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes Of Representation In Early Modern Theatre And Culture, Robert Lublin Sep 2011

Costuming The Shakespearean Stage: Visual Codes Of Representation In Early Modern Theatre And Culture, Robert Lublin

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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 …

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"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin Dec 2007

"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin

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Notions of the sacred and the profane took on a particular significance in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century England. This period, chronologically circumscribed on one side by the Protestant Reformation and on the other by the Civil War, was a time of enormous religious change. These changes found articulation in the theatre of the period. Plays such as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and Middleton’s A Game at Chess make significant use of historically specific understandings of Protestantism and Catholicism. Scholars have noted the religious aspects of these plays before, but what has garnered less critical attention is the manner …

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“Whosoever Loves Not Picture, Is Injurious To Truth": Costumes And The Stuart Masque, Robert Lublin Dec 2006

“Whosoever Loves Not Picture, Is Injurious To Truth": Costumes And The Stuart Masque, Robert Lublin

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“An Vnder Black Dubblett Signifying A Spanish Hart”: Costumes And Politics In Middleton’S A Game At Chess, Robert Lublin Dec 2006

“An Vnder Black Dubblett Signifying A Spanish Hart”: Costumes And Politics In Middleton’S A Game At Chess, Robert Lublin

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The political significance of Middleton’s A Game at Chess has drawn scholarly attention in the past, but one promising area of study has gone largely unconsidered: the play’s visual presentation. How did the actors appear when they first performed the play and how was that visual information received by early modern London audiences? This essay seeks to establish what costumes were worn by the King’s Men for their production of Middelton’s play and, more importantly, how they were received by their contemporary audience. Through such a study, we learn that Middleton employed costumes as skillfully as he used dialogue to …

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Spell #7 And Ntozake Shange’S Project Of Anti-Drama, Robert Lublin Dec 2005

Spell #7 And Ntozake Shange’S Project Of Anti-Drama, Robert Lublin

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Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin Dec 2003

Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin

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Differing Dramatic Dynamics In The Stage And Screen Versions Of Glengarry Glen Ross, Robert Lublin Dec 2000

Differing Dramatic Dynamics In The Stage And Screen Versions Of Glengarry Glen Ross, Robert Lublin

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Unpublished Letters From Charles And Ellen Kean’S Final American Tour, Robert Lublin Dec 2000

Unpublished Letters From Charles And Ellen Kean’S Final American Tour, Robert Lublin

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Cadences Of Cruelty: Artaud’S Discursive Performance, Robert Lublin Dec 1999

Cadences Of Cruelty: Artaud’S Discursive Performance, Robert Lublin

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Edward Bond’S ‘Irresponsibly Optimistic’ Preface To Saved, Robert Lublin Dec 1998

Edward Bond’S ‘Irresponsibly Optimistic’ Preface To Saved, Robert Lublin

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