If Inigo Jones' drawings are any indication, aristocratic women sometimes appeared in masques with their breasts showing—or in costumes so transparent that their nipples showed through.
I've heard about this lecture, which I gather he gave many times. It completely changed my impression of Wilson Knight. I think I also heard that the loin-cloth was a late concession, and earlier performances went the full Monty.
Hannibal
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Charlie Butler
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Timon leaves Athens with the imprecation, "Nothing I'll bear from thee,/
But nakedness, thou detestable town!", before scuttling to his cave. It's not clear quite how literal he's being about this, although when G. Wilson Knight gave a guest
lecture on Timon at my college in the early 1980s (being then his eighties himself) he stripped down to a loin-cloth to illustrate the point.
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