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Theatre terminology: costume
posted by Cheshire on Thu, Jan 24, 2008
Someone ended up on the Impact site last week by searching Google for "theatre terminology - costume," and I thought, Why, that does sound like something worth looking up. Turns out that the word is only about 300 years old and comes from the French for custom, in the sense of what someone customarily wears. So what did Shakespeare call costumes if the word wasn't invented yet?
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Theatre terminology: Grand Guignol
posted by Cheshire on Fri, Jan 4, 2008
Just in case you didn't already know...
The term "Grand Guignol" (pronunciation) gets thrown around a lot these days, it seems. Writers use it to contextualize anything that's over-the-top bloody or otherwise horrific. But what does it actually mean?
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