Date:1572 - 1580 (c.)
Description:Townsfolk of Shakespeare's England. For country merchant class people such as the Shakespeare family the fashions of the city were slow to be adopted. Shakespeare was swift to comment in his plays on the dress of courtiers. In Hamlet (5.2) Osric is teased for his manners, in Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek is proud of his multi-coloured stockings (1.3), and in Cymbeline (4.2) Prince Cloten expects his status to be recognised when he reacts to the discourteous mountain men in Wales 'Thou villain base, know'st me not by my clothes.' See: Hamlet, 5,2, lines 83-141. Twelfth Night, 1,3, lines 128-130. Cymbeline, 4,2, lines 83-85. Full title: Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, [from Civitates orbis terrarum. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1572 - c.1580](hand-coloured)
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