Spectacular Performances

Stephen Orgel

Manchester University Press, 2013

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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do port

ISBN-13
9780719081699
ISBN-10
0719081696
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-10-31
Pages
304
Dimensions
234x157x16
Weight
446