Costumes for the Stage: A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Play

Costumes for the Stage is essential for anyone producing costumes on a small budget, whether for schools, colleges, or amateur, semi-professional, or professional groups. This second edition features expanded text and new illustrations. Beginning with a basic introduction to the changing shape of clothes, the book provides practical advice for every kind of play, together with drawings, diagrams and patterns from which to work. It includes sections on Greek plays, medieval miracles and mysteries, Shakespeare, seventeenth-century, eighteenth-century, Victorian, and Edwardian costume. Each section covers the details of men's and women's clothes and accessories, as well as methods for adapting and simplifying the style of the period.

Costumes for the stage: A complete handbook for every kind of play

Arts & Photography

Jackson, Shelia

Performing Arts

The Herbert Press

Revised edition bound in purple boards with silver spine lettering. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Former owner's name inked on the front fly. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners.

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Basic Heraldry

Reference

Ferguson, John

FRIAR, Stephen

Genealogy

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Travel

Burn, A.R. and Mary (Lawrence Durrell, Foreword)

Europe

Traces the development of Bauhaus art and design school, discusses the theories of its teachers, and examines the Bauhaus' influence on modern art

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Gillian Naylor

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Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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Crafts & Hobbies

The Private Degas

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History & Criticism

Victorian Delights

Politics & Social Sciences

HADFIELD, John

Anthropology

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Hilder, Rowland

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