Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare

Name: Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare15641616\nAuthor(s): Sarah Jane Downing\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Shire Publications\nISBN-13: 9780747813545, 978-0747813545\nSynopsis\nGarments and accessories are prominent in almost all of William Shakespeares plays, from Hamlet and Othello to A Midsummer Nights Dream and Twelfth Night.\n\nThe statement 'Clothes maketh the man was one that would have resonated with their audiences: the rise of England's merchant class had made issues of rank central to Elizabethan debate, and a rigid table of sumptuary laws carefully regulated the sorts of fabric and garment worn by the different classes.\n\nFrom the etiquette of courtly dress to the evolution of the Elizabethan ruff, in this vibrant introduction Sarah Jane Downing explores the sartorial world of the late-16th century, why people wore the clothes they did, and how the dizzyingly eclectic range of fashions (including ruffs, rebatos an.