Constance - King John?

Question

I have to wear a simple dress that Contance might have worn in the play. I couldn't even find any pictures of her to get ideas. Any suggestions?

I have a few of those bohemian skirts, but I don't know how to make them into a respected outfit

I don't want to spend too much money

The teacher said for Juliet we could wear a ruffled blouse, but I don't know wether to tuck it in and what skirt to wear, etc

Help!jjklh

I didn't get the part.:(. Its for a monologue, for english class

Jfengel, I looked at the gowns you posted, and they helped. I was thinking of wearing a blue skirt with green and blue sequins, and blue embroidery, with a white dress shirt and greeen tank top on top

How do you think that would look?

Answer 1

Constance is an awesome role; congratulations. Her final speech is one of the greatest tear-the-doors-off tearjerkers in Shakespeare.

If you were setting King John today, you'd set Constance up as an older woman and a mother. We're something dowdy and businesslike. Have a black dress for her final scene.

If you're setting it in the original period, you'd dress her as a medieval lady. Unfortunately, you're going to have difficulty simulating that out of your closet. Here are some examples of what she might have worn:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ITv&q=medieval+gown&btnG=Search

It consists of several layers: chemise, tunic, over-tunic, mantle. You can make your own fairly easily; one simple pattern is:

http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~arnora/arnora/costumehdbk.htm#normfem