The Performance of Disguise

Authors

  • Peter Hyland Huron University College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12745/et.5.1.626

Abstract

Assuming that on the early English stage there must frequently have been the need to distinguish a disguised character from a doubled character, this note considers the problems arising from time constraints and the pressures exerted upon a company's wardrobe, to make some suggestions about how disguise might have been performed. It suggests that frequently disguised identity could not have involved a change of costume as such, but must have been signalled by some kind of costume shorthand.

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Published

2002-01-01

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2002)

Section

Note

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