Hamlet? Definitely ham.
I've been looking through the NYPL image archives, because I decided I needed some Renaissance icons. The I decided I needed some Shakespeare icons. So I've been looking up pictures related to productions of Shakespearean plays. (See the icon with this post? Yeah, I made that. With my mad mouse clicking and dragging skills.)
This has led me to realize how very spoiled modern people are when it comes to costuming for Shakespearean productions. Compared to what was going on in the Victorian era, The Other Boleyn Girl is impeccably researched.
Like this. This would never happen today. You just do not see that much man-thigh, however tightly clad said thigh is, in theatre and film today when it comes to Shakespeare. He clearly is not wearing pumpkin pants. He is not even wearing ornamental gourd pants. Even the Nicholas Hilliard painting of that guy in the white doublet with the teeny-tiny pumpkin pants clearly shows there are pumpkin pants, while displaying quite a bit of slender man-thigh.
And this? Those are clearly cut-off jean shorts in black wool. Poor Monsieur Mounet-Sully. I think he might have been casted for his ability to fill out a pair of tights. Seriously, those muscles are not from wool padding.
This has led me to realize how very spoiled modern people are when it comes to costuming for Shakespearean productions. Compared to what was going on in the Victorian era, The Other Boleyn Girl is impeccably researched.
Like this. This would never happen today. You just do not see that much man-thigh, however tightly clad said thigh is, in theatre and film today when it comes to Shakespeare. He clearly is not wearing pumpkin pants. He is not even wearing ornamental gourd pants. Even the Nicholas Hilliard painting of that guy in the white doublet with the teeny-tiny pumpkin pants clearly shows there are pumpkin pants, while displaying quite a bit of slender man-thigh.
And this? Those are clearly cut-off jean shorts in black wool. Poor Monsieur Mounet-Sully. I think he might have been casted for his ability to fill out a pair of tights. Seriously, those muscles are not from wool padding.