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The Actor in Costume

by Aoife Monks
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780230216990
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
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  • Pages: 158
  • Original Price: GBP 120.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography and Theater / History & Criticism

From the Back Cover

How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book explores these questions, and engages with the various theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. Aoife Monks focuses in particular on the uncanny ways in which costume and the actor's body are indistinguishable in the audience's experience of a performance.

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Drawing on examples from paintings, photographs, live performances, novels, reviews, blogs and plays, Monks presents a vibrant analysis of the very peculiar work that actors and costumes do on the stage.

Monks, Aoife: - Aoife Monks is Reader in Theatre Studies at Queen Mary University of London and is currently Director of Research and Impact for the Department of Drama. She is Consulting Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review journal and co-convenor of the Feminist Research Working Group at the International Federation of Theatre Research. She is the author of The Actor In Costume (2010) and, with A. Maclaurin, Readings in Costume (2014).

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