Costumes in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
In contrast to the adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” that we saw, which defied traditional roles of Elizabethan dress, in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” the dress was mainly traditional, renaissance-like dress. The fairies also kept to their traditional roles through dress. Bottom and his friends (“the workers”), however, were dressed as modern-day workers. They were wearing plaid, army, construction outfits, tool belts, baseball hats, scarves, gloves, and were carrying toolboxes.
