Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes

by Joel H. Kaplan and Sheila Stowell

Book Overview

This is the first book to explore the complex relationship among theater, fashion, and society in the late Victorian and early modern eras. Examining such diverse topics as the emergence of the society playhouse, fashion journalism, the role of the couturier-costumier, department store marketing, and the establishment of dress codes by militant suffragettes, Kaplan and Stowell provide a new context for assessing plays by established writers such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052149950X
• ISBN13: 9780521499507
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"