How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores thisquestion engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actorsin perform... » 

How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores thisquestion engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actorsin performance. The book considers costumes power to shape identity and formbodies drawing on examples from Modernist performance to nudity and stageghosts. «