Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare

Garments and accessories are prominent in almost all of William Shakespeare''s plays, from Hamlet and Othello to A Midsummer Night''s Dream and Twelfth Night. The statement ''Clothes maketh the man'' was one that would have resonated with their audiences: the rise of England''s merchant class had made issues of rank central to Elizabethan debate, and a rigid table of sumptuary laws carefully regul...