Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521499507)

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 Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Arthur Pinero, and Harley Granville Barker, as well as lesser know figures such as Edith Lyttelton, Emily Symonds, and Cicely Hamilton.

Author: Joel H. Kaplan, Sheila Stowell
ISBN-10: 052149950X
ISBN-13: 9780521499507
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/1995
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.14w x 0.56d