Costume and Scenery
PATENT HOUSES
After the detailed review of expenditure for wardrobe, properties,
scenes and machines during the first part of tire century, given by Dr Avery
in liis Introduction to Part 2 of tlris Work, and after examination of tile
account books in the Garrick period, one ftels ftee to take issue witlr tlie older
V‘ew of tlrese matters given by Miss Eily Pess Campbell in her classic and
entertaining article,
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of Costuming on tile Englislr Stage between
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and 1823 ."58 she was severe witlr our ancestors on three points: tlieir
.eagerness of costume; tlreir use of inappropriate dress ftom the standpoint
of historical realism; and tlieir lack of discovery of an aesthetic principle upon
١١ hlch to choose costume. In contrad'istinction, on the basis of newly analyzed
would, for five montlis of tire season, liave been covered with gooseflesh
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have been !indistinguishable in the cha
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teeth. We remember the testimony in tlie trial of Macklin for killing
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after a performance lie “came into tlie Green
Dallam, tha
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to warm himself." The stage area was cliilly. Many interpretations
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p٠fo!;fo ftom similar sets of evidence, but Miss Campbell
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heavily upon tile gossip of Tate Wilkinson and Mrs Bellamy, botli
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talkers who liked to make up a good story. I sliall present other sources
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framing a different picture, and suggest, (3) tliat in aestlietic tlieory it
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play that
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dramatic strength
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Were
£7,000
Ifoeccs performed (as evidenced by annual profits from £500 to
authenticity of costuming assumed its place at tlie liottoni of
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long ago concluded were tlie sources of
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g. :: categories whic
drama. We may find it ludicrous tliat Garrick played Macbetli in a
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