BERNARDO:
In some editions, Bernardo is an officer, in some he is listed as a soldier. If he is a common soldier, then he could have the same costume as Francisco. In the text both he and Marcellus defer to Horatio’s education, although Marcellus seems to be of equal rank to Horatio when they’re […]

SL Shakespeare Hamlet – Ada Radius 2007-09-09
Act1 scene 1 soldier costumes – Francisco, Bernardo, Marcellus
The best guess is that, regardless of the setting of the play itself, the soldiers in the cast would have been dressed, more or less, as Elizabethan era soldiers. The soldiers of the sixteenth century wore civilian dress with scarves, […]

Long time no post.
Well, when Ada told me that we should just go with June’s anime-style, I realized that there wasn’t enough time for the machinima for custom-made-everything (and that she wouldn’t be hurt if I executive-veto’ed her exact clothing suggestions).
With a liberal interpretation of history, and with more of an eye towards prettiness and […]

Some visual interpretations of Francisco’s character.
Francisco as a peasant boy who can’t afford better garb:

Barnado & Francisco
Costume:

Chain mail shirts (picture in Chain Mail Shirt.jpg )
Each with a brown leather belt and frog (as picture in sword belt-frog.jpg)
Hooded black cloak with the hood up (as in ‘cloak’ picture, but black)
Black baggy pants (as in ‘cloak’ picture)
Black leather almost-to-the-knee boots with a cuff (as in ‘cloak’ picture)
Each with gloves (picture […]

Ina said, “there is actually a 2-4 times larger version of the Globe to be constructed for the actual performance.” OH GOODY!
Dolgo said there should be a real AV for the ghost–TOTALLY AGREE–if I may–I would like to insist on that!
Ina said, “Passing of beacon along is also a good symbolism,” to denote the […]

Wikipedia (thus it MUST be RIGHT–hee hee-kidding) gives this image as a coat of arms for Kronborg Castle in Helsingør (aka Elsinore).
Further info regarding debate over coat of arms at http://swhack.com/logs/2006-06-08–its on the internet–thus it too is suspect!

Posting this for Sabina, since the blog template is not setup yet.  Click for pdf: Act 1, Scene 1 Props and Costumes Research