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autocrat "not merely should design and arrange everything
but should have complete control over the way in which each
dress is to "be worn", and Wilde advocates dress rehearsals, so
that tho actors may see how rtrcss and cssture are not merely
fitted to but are controlled by and define character - "until
an actor is at home in his dress, he ic not nt home in his part".
(Intentions, pp. 25 5-6).
It- seems that i'.'ilue'c views on the subject were influenced
by those of the r.rcuitect and stage-desi^er, E.W.Godwin, whose
oericD of articles "Archaeology on the Stc^e" had appeared in
The l?r: n-itic iteviev during February and March of 1885 » These
articles are discussed in Part Two, Chapter Tvo below, in
connection with Godwin's theatrical career atic: influences it
appear c that ..i.lde was not so much a Tiipgicirist as an advocate
of th','0 ana 1885: tr,oy ;.lso