Textile Shakespeare by Lees-Jeffries, Hester;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 11 November 2025

ISBN 9780198861133
Binding Hardback
No. of pages416 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Language English
Illustrations 16pp colour plate section and 4 black and white images

Short description:

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed the wearer's wealth, but could also indicate knowledge and skill. The book explores textiles in the works of Shakespeare and examines the ways in which they shape identity, performance, and language.

Long description:

Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural, and social centrality of textiles to life in early modern England.

Cloth, broadly interpreted, could function as a form of knowledge, skill, and expertise, of power, status, and control; it was a means of both storing and displaying wealth. Cloth, especially in the layered forms of early modern dress, furnished ways of imagining the body and the body politic, the community, the city, the nation, and the self; it was also central to thinking about language, rhetoric, literature, and the act of writing. In chapters based around different materials (linen, leather, wool, silk) and processes (sewing, cutting, folding), Textile Shakespeare recovers this textile liveliness, giving a comprehensive and immersive account of the place of textiles in early modern life and thought, and exploring and animating Shakespeare's plays in ways that have become largely invisible. Grounded in careful and illuminating close reading, it explores the entire range of Shakespeare's works, on the page and in performance in both the early modern theatre and on the contemporary stage.

Richly illustrated, it includes detailed descriptions of surviving early modern garments and textiles, based on first-hand experience, and amasses and comprehensively reassesses the evidence for costuming and other staging in Shakespeare's time. It pays attention to textile labour, especially by women, and through its careful and original readings of Shakespeare's plays, it recovers the emotional and physical impact of clothing and other textiles on the lives and experiences of early modern people.