- boot". A high-heeled
buskin (Gr****
kothornos (Gr****: κόθορνος) or
Latin cothurnus) was worn by
Athenian tragic actors (to make them look taller). Buskins...
- Gr**** theatre,
actors in
tragic roles wore a boot
called a
buskin (Latin
cothurnus)
while the
actors with
comedic roles wore only a thin-soled shoe called...
-
frequently used to
increase the
height of the wearer. They were made of cork.
Cothurnus (Κόθορνος) was a high shoe or
buskin with
several soles. It
covered the...
-
adaptations of Gr****
tragedy (hence the names,
coming from
crepida =
sandal and
cothurnus)
beginning in the
early third century BC. Only nine have
survived intact...
- user's feet shape. Like
moccasins they are soft-soled. Like
ancient Roman cothurnus, the
rudimentary boots have no toe box and do not
cover the toes completely...
- ****ociated with
comic actors and philosophers. The
tragedians wore the
cothurnus (κόθορνος, kóthornos), sandal-like
boots that rose
above the
midcalf and...
-
Romeo and Juliet, New York
Shakespeare Festival, New York City, 1957.
Cothurnus, Aria da Capo,
Theatre Marquee, New York City, 1958.
Understudy for title...
- Greece. The
actors in
these plays that had
tragic roles wore
boots called cothurnus (buskin), that
elevated them
above the
other actors. The
actors with comedic...
-
variety of footwear,
particularly different styles of sandals. The
heeled cothurnus was part of the
standard costume for tragedians, and the
effeminate soccus...
- Gr**** origin, the
palliata (comedy) and the
cothurnata (tragedy -from
cothurnus, the
typical footwear of
tragic actors), and with a
Roman setting, called...
