Chicken bald back

[HarrisonFamily]

Hi

 

Both my children have to dress up as a character from Shakespeare for book week, apart from watching Romeo and Juliet any one have any ideas of 2 characters that are easy to dress up and for them to explain who they are....

 

Thank you

 

Helen

[bluekarin]

Just seen this book cover on amazon http://www.amazon.com/A-Theatergoers-Guide-Shakespeares-Characters/dp/1566635705 and a couple your could try are Julius Cesar and Hamlet (?) who holds a skull?

[Cinnamon]

Wow, that's kind of limiting! When mine were at school, it was just a character from a book.

 

Off the top if my head:

The Nurse in Romeo & Juliet

Beatrice & Benedick from Much Ado (standard historical outfits really)

 

Cleopatra & Anthony/Julius

 

Falstaff , if your boy doesn't mind a pillow up his tunic!

Viola if your girl doesn't mind dressing as a boy (might be fun!)

 

There are various fools, clowns & jesters too.

[Willow]

I used to hate book week and having to come up with costumes

 

Never quite as difficult as Shakespeare though

 

Medieval Peasants, "Ooops, word censored!"les or kings/queens in several plays

 

Witches - Macbeth

Fairies - midsummers night dream

Donkey head midsummers night dream

Friar/Monks in a few plays

[dancing cloud]

Oberon and Titania - King and Queen of Fairies from Midsummer Night's Dream - standard fairy outfits.

 

Put them in pj's/nightie as two of the four the dreamers from Midsummer Night's Dream

 

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth - king and queen outfits

 

Princes in the Tower from Richard III - didn't work out too well for them though, so maybe something a bit more cheerful

[bluekarin]

I loved book week when mine were little. My ED dressed up as Fantastic Mr Fox one year She was also Hermoine as she was reading HP when she was in year 2 I think! My youngest used to always be a fairy of some sort For the life of me I can't think what my son ever went as

 

Back to topic - Some good ideas there. Love the Much ado one and Viola

[Space Chick]

I was going to say the fairies from a Mid Summer Nights Dream

[WitchHazel]

Gosh, it's hard to think of costmes that would be immediately recognisable. Witches from Macbeth, fairies from Midsummer NIghts Dream, and a skull for Hamlet have already been mentioned.

 

Donkey ears and tail = Bottom from Midsummer Night's Dream (when he was temporarily turned into an ass)

 

Togas - Julius Caesar/Brutus

 

I guess you could stain a girls hands red, and make her wring her hands a lot, to represent Lady Macbeth, but that might be a bit gruesome.

[Olly]

Malvolio! Yellow cross-gartered stockings - some yellow socks and a bit of ribbon or bias binding?

 

Otherwise I think Puck, Caliban, Prospero etc offer more options than the serious plays. The fairies in Midsummer Nights Dream have specific names - Pease Blossom, Cobweb and Mustardseed - could you build on that?

[HarrisonFamily]

My daughter would NEVER wear a fairy costume - I think she would leave home if I even suggested it !!!!

 

I might let them wear what ever they like and make up a strange name and tell them its out a not so famous play and see if the teachers notice !!!

[soapdragon]

I might let them wear what ever they like and make up a strange name and tell them its out a not so famous play and see if the teachers notice !!!

 

You could claim its from one of the lost plays!

[HarrisonFamily]

"Lost Plays" what an excellent idea - so my daughter can use her viking costume and I am sure Shakespeare would have written about Harry potter in my sons quidditch outfit !!!