THE BELLES OF CANTERBURY

A CHAUCER TALE OUT OF SCHOOL

A Play In One Act for Eleven Girls

 

BY
ANNA BIRD STEWART, A.M.

 

DEDICATED TO
MISS DOROTHY CONREY

 

1912


PRICE 25 CENTS

 

NEW YORK
SAMUEL FRENCH
PUBLISHER
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LONDON
SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.
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THE BELLES OF CANTERBURY

PERSONS IN THE PLAY.

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Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior

Pupils at a girls' school


CHARACTERS FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES.

Wife of Bath
Prioress
First Nun
Second Nun
Emily
Hippolyta
Griselda
From the Prologue
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From the Knight's Tale
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COSTUMES.

The simplicity of the costuming as well as of the stage setting makesthe play an easy one for amateurs to produce.

The dress of the four school girls should be as modern as possible.Their hair should be elaborately arranged.

Hippolyta should wear the dress of an Amazon, armor if possible, or ashort skirt, sandals laced high with crossed strings, waist to match theskirt, a crown, and a shield on the left arm. The shield can he made bygilding or covering a barrel-head with silver paper.

Emily wears a long gown of pale dull green cheese cloth, fallingstraight from the shoulders and girded in at the waist by a curtaincord. She must have fair hair which should be braided down her back.

Griselda should wear a similar costume of pale gray and lavender, witha tall headdress of wire covered with white gauze and tinsel.

The Wife of Bath wears a short skirted costume of very bright colors,red stockings, very broad shoes, a straw hat with a broad brim and notrimming, if possible one of the sun hats worn by farmers.

The Prioress and her Nuns wear black skirts and white waists. Overthis they

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