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Kemble's Hamlet Costume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Raymond J. Pentzell
Affiliation:
University of Toledo

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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1972

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Notes

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1. See my previous article, “Garrick's Costuming,” TS, X (05 1969), 1842Google Scholar.

2. The Examiner, 29 March 1812, quoted by Odell, George C., Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving (New York, 1920), II, 106Google Scholar.

3. Reprinted by Nagler, A.M., A Source Book in Theatrical History (New York, 1952), pp. 413414Google Scholar.

4. Doran, John, Annals of the English Stage (ed. and rev. Lowe, Robert W., London, 1888), III, 251Google Scholar. Baker, Herschel, John Philip Kemble, The Actor in his Theatre (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), p. 262CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Russell, D.A., “Hamlet Costumes from Garrick to Gielgud,” Shakespeare Survey 9 (1956), 5455Google Scholar. Mander, Raymond and Mitchenson, Joe, “Hamlet Costumes: A Correction,” Shakespeare Survey 11 (1958), 123124Google Scholar.

6. Mander, and Mitchenson, , Hamlet through the Ages (London, 1952), p. 96, pl. 148Google Scholar.

7. Baker, pp. 194–195.

8. Compare, for instance, the elegant line of Bell's British Theatre or Cawthorn engravings of the 1790s. The difference in style from, say, the Bell or Wenman prints of the '70s and early '80s is readily apparent.