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Sanditon
  • ISSN: 2044-2823
  • E-ISSN: 2044-2831

Abstract

This article elaborates on the discursive and representational dress narratives by the leading male characters in (2019–23, PBS) and that of Sidney Parker in particular. Unlike any of the other men, he wears black costumes throughout the first series and brings characteristics as well as manners totally different from theirs to the story. Hero or anti-hero? Sidney Parker’s performance invites a discussion on Hamlet’s monochrome persona in rhetorical and emotional black. Parker’s screen character is also considered as a further elaboration on Andrew Davies’s ‘Darcy-model’, a scholarly concept pertaining to Mr Darcy’s dark costumes and performance in (1995, BBC).

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