Empire on the English Stage 16601714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521036009
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English
First sentence: On October 18, 1666, John Evelyn approvingly recorded the adoption of a new fashion at the Carolean court: 18 to Lond: Star-Chamber: thence to Court, it being the first time of his Majesties putting himselfe solemnly into the Eastern fashion of Vest, changing doublet, stiff Collar, bands and Cloake etc: into a comely Vest, after the Persian mode with girdle or shash, and Shoe strings and Garters, into bouckles, of which some were set with precious stones, resolving never to alter it, and to leave the French mode, which had hitherto obtained to our greate expense and reproch: upon which divers Courtiers and Gent: gave his Ma[jesty] gold, by way of Wager, that he would not persist in this resolution: I had some time before indeede presented an Invectique against that unconstancy, and our so much affecting the french fashion, to his Majestie in which [I] tooke occasion to describe the Comelinesse and usefullnesse of the Persian clothing in the very same manner, his Majestie clad himselfe; This