Emerging in California during the Cold War, the Renaissance Pleasure Faire gave blacklisted creatives a stage to perform and reimagine life in the 16th century—complete with actors cosplaying historical figures, and drawing inspiration from the commedia dell'arte and Elizabethan fairs. Now popular across the U.S., Halley Brown reveals more about the origins of these events and how political history led to their development.
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