Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical (1906)
Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866- · London Macmillan · leaf 285
acter, and then thequestion of dress is comparatively easy. JohnRyder, by the way, used to explain his protractedengagement with Charles Kean as being solely dueto what he was wont to call his arch^ological figure. It has been questioned whether the publiccares, or knows, much about the details of… … \ XX OF THEATRICAL DRESS 241 over which, of course, Mr. Percy Anderson shouldpreside, visits to the theatre may offer to thestudent considerable instruction. In other days thescholar resented any incongruities of stage-costume.The satire of Pope pictures them vividly in theearly eighteenth century…
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