The Belles of Canterbury: A Chaucer Tale Out of School

1912
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Pupils at a girls' school
Wife of Bath Prioress First Nun Second Nun Emily Hippolyta Griselda
From the Prologue From the Knight's Tale Clerk's
The simplicity of the costuming as well as of the stage setting makes the 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 a short skirt, sandals laced high with crossed strings, waist to match the skirt, a crown, and a shield on the left arm. The shield can he made by gilding or covering a barrel-head with silver paper.
Emily wears a long gown of pale dull green cheese cloth, falling straight from the shoulders and girded in at the waist by a curtain cord. She must have fair hair which should be braided down her back.
Griselda should wear a similar costume of pale gray and lavender, with a tall headdress of wire covered with white gauze and tinsel.