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

By Sheila Jackson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941533360
• ISBN13: 9780941533362
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Packed with practical examples and tips

Costumes For The Stage appears in its second edition to provide a range of actors and students with clear designs for producing costumes on a small budget. From an introduction to clothing styles and history to practical advice for putting together costumes matching different eras, Costumes For The Stage is packed with practical examples and tips on how to adapt and simplify period clothing.