Subject: Re: clarification
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 16:35:23 GMT
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Scottie Bowman wrote:
: Long term memory suggests that the phrase 'to wear the fustian'
: (acquired around this time) refers to the fact that actors of
: the Elizabethan age wore primitive stage costumes made
: from this particular type of coarse cloth.
Right as rain about the metonymy, but what actors in the Elizabethan age
wore is considerably more complex an issue. Popular Elizabethan companies
typically wore last year's castoffs from the court, and
popular/professional drama in the general sense is now thought to have
been remarkable for lavish costumes. This does not preclude the use of
fustian in costumes, but primitive they were (presumably) not.
Il n'y a pas de hors texte,
Matt
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