1912
PRICE 25 CENTS
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