{"id":1168,"date":"2018-10-17T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/?page_id=1168"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:20:55","slug":"costume-designs-for-loves-victory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/costume-designs-for-loves-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Costume Designs for ‘Love’s Victory’"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 11 July 2018,\u00a0students from Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School, following the project Shakespeare and His Sisters, led two workshops\u00a0with year 10 pupils.<\/div>\n
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The first was on representations of Venus\u00a0from classical literature to contemporary advertising, in which students designed costumes for\u00a0Venus, the goddess and presiding deity in the play.<\/div>\n
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The designs capture the dominant and yet slightly insecure nature of Lady Mary Wroth’s Venus who feels underworshipped in the play.<\/div>\n
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Venus is determined to take revenge on the mortals and declares:<\/div>\n
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Let mortals never think it odd, or vain<\/strong><\/h4>\n

To hear that love can in\u00a0 spirits reign<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Princes are not exempted from our rights<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Much less should shepherds scorn us and our rights.<\/strong> (Act 1 Scene 4)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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The second group examined Act 3 Scene 3 of the play to give pupils a sense of the character of Dalina. Dalina claims ‘I know the world’ and offers advice to the other shepherdesses. The designs reflect\u00a0her past experiences in love and the sense that she may be older, or at least pretending to be older and wiser than them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Dress <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dress <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dress <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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