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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EEMAEKS ON THE COSTUME, ETC., OF SOME OF THE SKETCHES BY INIGO JONES. In a brief history of Stage Costume which I wrote some years ago for Mr. Charles Knight's first volume of Table Talk, I observed that the valuable labours of Mr. Wharton, in his History of English Poetry, and of Mr. Payne Collier, in his Annals of the Stage, had brought to light many curious details of the expenses attending the getting up of pageants and dramatic shows, during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV., Richard III., and Henry VII.; while the Chronicles of Hall and Hollinshed were replete with descriptions of the gorgeous masqueradings of our eighth Harry and his splendid court. In addition to this information, the Extracts from Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., edited by Mr. Peter Cunningham, and Henslowe's Diary, edited by Mr. Collier, both which volumes are in the hands of our members, have supplied us with a mass of incidental notices, illustrative of the costume and properties displayed in the dramas and masques of the Shakesperian era. The great liberality of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire now enables the Council to bring the aid of the pencil to the labours of the pen, and enrich the libraries of our subscribers with facsimiles of drawings made by the celebrated InigoJones, if not during the lifetime, very shortly after the decease of Shakespeare, and which place before us not only the habits in which the Masques of his contemporary, Ben Jon- son, were enacted, but in two instances, undoubtedly, the dress of characters in Shakespeare's own immortal productions. To commence, therefore, with these two most interesting illustrations: PLATE I. Presents us with the Palmer's, or Pilgrim's dress, worn by Romeo in the Masquerade s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217490238 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217490239 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 114 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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