Event

Bride-ing the Shrew: Costumes that Matter

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 17:00to19:00
Arts Building 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA
In this presentation, Barbara Hodgdon takes Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to explore how clothes "act out" in support of historical and cultural meanings. Placing Shrew's written language of clothes against Elizabethan social customs, she investigates how theatre's fabrications have invited spectators to look at Kate's (the Shrew's) "speaking body" in performance, and how Kate's clothes play with the most serious theme of human, and theatrical, consciousness – Who am I? Free, reception to follow
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