The actor in costume
By: Aoife Monks.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer; Red Globe Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230216990; 9780230217003
Subjects: Costume; Theater audiences
Description: "How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance.  The book considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Dressing-Up: The Actor's Body and Costume * Dressing the Audience: Fashion and Costume at the Theatre * Uses of Beauty: Substance and Depth in Modernist Costume * Cross-dressing: Authenticity and the Real Performer * Undressing: The Disappointments of Nudity * Dressing the Immaterial: The Problem of Ghosts * Epilogue.