Elizabethan Era Masquerade

Everything had began magnificently the day I attended the renaissance fair. It was the first time I’d ever been to any festival of the sort, and the air was full of magic. At exactly 10:30 in the morning, the ceremony began. The King and Queen presented themselves atop the castle’s balcony to address their people. As the beautiful royals welcomed us into their kingdom, my heart beat erratically, and I crossed the threshold with my breath held. There were so many events that I wanted to see, and activities I wanted to try; I couldn’t wait to get inside. I wasn’t just an ordinary guest, however, I had a job to do. Carrying my instrument lightly with one hand, dressed as a princess and feeling important, I walked proudly through the bustling

It is a chaotic and unruly tradition wherein people exercise their freedom to indulge in the desires of the flesh. This can be in forms of alcoholism (which was abundant in the late 1840s), food, loud parties, and noise in general. All self-control and sobriety are forgotten in traditional carnivals; it is supreme madness. It is the perfect alibi for Montresor because everyone would be in the carnival. It would be so chaotic that no one would know where everyone else is.

Have you ever wondered what people in the Elizabethan Era wore? Fashion was just as important in those days as it is to some people today. What people were wearing mattered to others, and even the government. During the Elizabethan Era clothing, accessories, and cosmetics were all a part of daily life.

Masks have held countless uses and meanings throughout history. Masks have been used in plays, like those of Shakespeare, traditional dances, social gatherings, even as a form of casual or corporal punishment. Although masks have several different uses in different cultural situations, the meaning of the masks is generally the same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically, masks can be used to hide feelings, to protect oneself, and to block out the outside world. Many of these examples are shown in Art Speigelman 's Maus.

It is evident through the peoples clothing that these are in fact members of the elite. Both men and women are clad in expensive, adorned clothing. They sit on the ground in their ornate clothes. While the clothing appears formal, the event does not.

This is a performance that is intentionally popular that has a sentimental value. The audience for this performance has a small market by the cause of favor and approval by their audience. The market is small because this is not a normally tradition so only a certain audience would know about it.

After six months of seclusion, the prince Masquerade Ball for all of his guests. The Masquerade Ball could symbolize a continuation of their denial. The masks and costumes are a shield to their true self; they hide the real worries of someone and instead show false perceptions of a person’s emotion.

My initial focus was the master of ceremony who was a Black-American. I saw that whenever he was welcoming guest, his interaction was socially stratified. First, whenever he greeted White people, he showed more interest and provided a strong grip. Some who appeared to have expensive apparel were treated with modesty and even led to their reserved seats while those who appeared to be casually dressed were casually greeted and asked to find a place to seat. In this scenario, I found two ethnographic characteristics in play. First, the event manager used social stratification as a mode to segregate guests. Those who were perceived to be wealthy had their seats reserved in front of the rest. These reserved seats had their names on them and marked as reserved. This showed that people who had amassed wealth received prestigious welcome and treatment. It was not clear to me whether the wealth status accorded to these individuals was based on achieved status or scribed status. However, to demystify this confusion, I engaged visitors participants present at the event to identify the social status of those classified as under high caliber guests. From the intonation of those I interviewed, I could tell that the concept of social stratification was

I still have several things that need to be done before I will be prepared. The starting thing I need to do is tell my dressmaker what I want my dress to look like. My dress will be a beautiful purple color with jewel made by my jeweler covering my chest. The sleeves of my dress will cover my shoulders, and the bottom half of my dress will be ruffled. As for my mask I will be making it myself. My mask will the the same color as my dress, the top of my mask and the top of my eyes will be outlined with jewels, the whole mask will be covered in fine purple sparkles, and the bottom of my mask will be outlined in black feather. After all the preparations for myself are taken care of I will start doing the tasks the prince has asked me to do. The first thing I will do is make a menu for the ball and have the Chefs prepare all the food that is on the menu for the prince and I to test and see if it's any good. The last task will be helping the prince decided what color to decorate the main room with, I choose purple. The day of the masque ball was finally here. Excitement filled my body with warmness as I tried on my mask and dress to see how they would look. After taking my bath I called my maids up to help me with my dress, hair, and makeup. Since the ball didn't start until seven and it was only five thirty, I decided to leave the curling rods in that the maids had put in my hair until it was almost time to

On the Twenty-Eighth Day, the Outer Bailey was graced with an event that surrounded Courtesy and Decorum with Mistress Josie as its hostess. In her own words, the event was designed to give Denizens the opportunity to learn what a formal ball might consist of in the Inner Bailey. To prepare for this event, the mistress teamed up with the Royal Curator, Master Jeffery to teach Denizens in the Outer Bailey about courtly dancing.

During the Regency era appearance was extremely important. If a woman arrived at a party under or overdressed she would be mocked and ridiculed for days by other women. Since propriety was valued as well, those who were dressed scandalously would be avoided by others to safeguard their reputation. Appearance was also and indicator of social status and wealth, which determined whether or not a person was

In Shakespeare's plays Twelfth Night and As You Like It both of the lead female characters dress as men. Both plays are comedies and the change in gender is used as a joke, but I think it goes much deeper. A woman can become a man, but only if it is not permanent. The affect of the change cannot be too great because she must change back to female once everything is settled. They are strong female characters, but must become men to protect themselves and ultimately solve the problem of the play. In the book Desire and Anxiety: The Circulation of Sexuality in Shakespearian Drama Valerie Traub calls the characters, "the crossed-dressed heroine who elicits and enjoys

The people who lived during the Elizabethan Era were not allowed to wear whatever they like or desired. Their Fashion choices had to be followed by a strict law! The English people chose to establish social classes by the colors they wore and this had an affect on costumes used in theatre. Queen Elizabeth I followed the sumptuary laws, which was only certain classes were consent to wear specific fabric and colors. Therefore in plays the actors could only wear certain colors for their costumes that displayed what role and class their character was in. The clothes worn during this era was a result of Queen Elizabeth’s sumptuary laws, which had an affect on costumes used in plays, and each color a person wore had a significant meaning.

In this century, the 3 categories of classes couldn’t be more different and separated. The upper class enjoyed leisure, operas, balls and everything what had to do something with luxury and what none of the lower classes could afford. Aristocracy was well known by their morals and etiquette in the Victorian ages. The Victorian Aristocratic views on morals were extinguished which was even prudish. Prudery went as far as sexuality was a taboo, human body must have been covered and talking about body was inappropriate. In the Victorian Era society started to have different values in morality. Upper class people had low tolerance for sexuality and crimes, and isolated from any of the lower class members. Thus sexuality, especially prostitution was not acceptable and eminently discriminates in the Victorian high society.

The reason why some people want to be part of the London Fashion Week is because the catwalk theatre is a particularly visible realm where identities are created through visible performances, (Entwistle & Rocamora, 2006) people want to belong into a certain world thus one’s taste of fashion shows who you are. The elite have their own way of greeting as evident by the air kiss they give one another showing field’s habitus as the poor cannot get such a greeting thus a hierarchy is brought out as not all people get that kind of a greeting. There are boundaries during the London Fashion Week as there are gatekeepers that allow or deny entrance to the field; some are excluded from the show because of their low status. The field fashion is like doors which one unlocks in order to gain various accesses. To be in the show one must have a ticket and, one’s social capital determines one either to be in the exhibition hall or to be in the catwalk theatre. This is so because not everyone can gain access to the event unless there are belonging to the field; as when one is in the field there also gain a