The Actor in Costume

How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance.#xA0;#xA0;The book#xA0;considers costume's power to shape identity and form bodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stage ghosts.

AOIFE MONKS is Programme Director of the BA Theatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Introduction * Dressing-Up: The Actor's Body and Costume * Dressing the Audience: Fashion and Costume at the Theatre * Uses of Beauty: Substance and Depth in Modernist Costume * Cross-dressing: Authenticity and the Real Performer * Undressing: The Disappointments of Nudity *
Dressing the Immaterial: The Problem of Ghosts * Epilogue

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