Summary: This website gives a great look into how the audience could recognize, or define the royalty levels of the characters in the playbased off of their clothing, and personality. It tells the reader how people in the Shakespeare era did their make-up with what they came up with to create the product, even though most of it was quite hazardous, like mixing white lead and vinegar together to create a white face paint for the "nobility" look. It give more explanations about how characters looked in different Shakespeare …show more content…
Even though the website didn't name the editor's last names, it seems to be very trustworthy. The website was filled with a great amount of knowledge. It's built for researchers, and it was made for educational purposes. It lists pictures, poems, unique details about the character's clothing designs, and modern reactions to Shakespeare's work. This website was very organized, and was a great resource to learn more about the topic!
Reflection: This website allows you to get more information to discover about Shakespeare from linking YouTube videos of how people did their make-up in the Shakespeare plays, films, poems, and much more Shakespeare topics. I found those to be incredibly helpful, and reliable.
Mabillard, Amanda. "Shakespeare's Clothes - Exploring Elizabethan Costumes, Hair and Clothing of the Poorer Classes." Shakespeare's Clothes - Exploring Elizabethan Costumes, Hair and Clothing of the Poorer Classes. Amanda Mabillard, 18 May 15. Web. 25 Mar. …show more content…
The author makes good summaries on the clothing, for example, how it was designed, the texture of it, the different colors that the characters had to wear in the plays, and much more. The Elizabethan's related to the Roman's by wearing bright purple to keep an upper class status, and the lower class character's weren't allowed to wear anything by a certain color that was supposed to be an example of an upper class character.
Evaluation: The author was an honors student in a freelance writer specializing in Shakespeare, Renaissance political theory, theatre history, comparative literary history, and linguistic topics in Renaissance literature. The website provides more information on her education, and work. The website provides it's own page of more sources to other Shakespearean topics that are very trustworthy. This website is outstanding for research!
Reflection: I really liked how the author gave out different facts about the clothing styles for the male and female characters in Shakespeare plays. She described how much padding was used in Shakespeare plays, and how they shaped the character's costume; it was very interesting.
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