Add to ORKGCostumes are powerful objects, which carry multiple meanings and memories in their fibres. Through three connected blog posts, I will highlight the importance of costume for performance: revealing the insights costumes offer into the lives of the people who designed, made, wore and saw them. Commencing with Ellen Terry’s ‘Beetlewing Dress’, moving on to Edwin Moxon’s embroidered ‘shorts’, and concluding with Kitty Lord’s carefully padded ‘Symmetricals’, I will showcase the information which these unique garments offer about the performer, performance, and audience, for which they were originally created.‘Costume in the Limelight’ was a series of three connected blog posts exploring different aspects of 19th Century Stage Costume, published ...
The teaching team on the Costume with Textiles BA at the University if Huddersfield proposes a 20 mi...
When we meet a character in a performance, the implicit understanding is that they have existed unt...
In performance contexts we often perceive costume as visual expression and as something that servers...
This paper will highlight the significant insights surviving costumes offer into the embodied experi...
This chapter illuminates the important function which stage costumes can play in what Marvin Carlson...
Direct engagement with the material culture of historic theatre costume, particularly surviving cost...
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding ass...
This chapter considers dress, both on and off the stage, as a ‘scenographic strategy’ for self-fashi...
A leading actress of the late nineteenth century, Dame Ellen Terry (1847–1928) exercised an unusual ...
Book chapter as part of edited collection. A leading actress of the nineteenth century, Ellen Ter...
This presentation focuses on a set of dark red silk ‘legal robes’ and a matching cap. Worn by Ellen ...
How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and f...
This article locates costume, an almost non-existent area of theatre studies scholarship, at the cen...
This paper will highlight the important role that collaboration can play in unpicking the multiple m...
Significant changes occurred in approaches to the design and creation of theatre costume during the ...
The teaching team on the Costume with Textiles BA at the University if Huddersfield proposes a 20 mi...
When we meet a character in a performance, the implicit understanding is that they have existed unt...
In performance contexts we often perceive costume as visual expression and as something that servers...
This paper will highlight the significant insights surviving costumes offer into the embodied experi...
This chapter illuminates the important function which stage costumes can play in what Marvin Carlson...
Direct engagement with the material culture of historic theatre costume, particularly surviving cost...
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding ass...
This chapter considers dress, both on and off the stage, as a ‘scenographic strategy’ for self-fashi...
A leading actress of the late nineteenth century, Dame Ellen Terry (1847–1928) exercised an unusual ...
Book chapter as part of edited collection. A leading actress of the nineteenth century, Ellen Ter...
This presentation focuses on a set of dark red silk ‘legal robes’ and a matching cap. Worn by Ellen ...
How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and f...
This article locates costume, an almost non-existent area of theatre studies scholarship, at the cen...
This paper will highlight the important role that collaboration can play in unpicking the multiple m...
Significant changes occurred in approaches to the design and creation of theatre costume during the ...
The teaching team on the Costume with Textiles BA at the University if Huddersfield proposes a 20 mi...
When we meet a character in a performance, the implicit understanding is that they have existed unt...
In performance contexts we often perceive costume as visual expression and as something that servers...