Fancy Dress from Literature

[Rusks]

Can anybody give me some ideas for dressing up as a character from literature? Male and female character suggestions are welcome.

[sara3]

heathcliff and cathy, how romantic!

[Senga 2]

Anthony & Cleopatra; Romeo & Juliet; Elizabeth & Darcy

[Octavius]

Gatsby and Daisy - The Great Gatsby

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_im g1074.jpg

Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler - Gone with the Wind

http://www.doctormacro1.info/Images/Leigh,%20V ivien/Annex/Annex%20-%20Leigh,%20Vivien%20(Gon e%20With%20the%20Wind)_01.jpg

Lancelot and Guinevere

http://www.donatoart.com/paintings/lancelot.jp g

Odysseus and Penelope - The Odyssey

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ 9/95/Penelope_och_Odysseus_som_tiggare,_Nordis k_familjebok.png

[Octavius]

Bill Sikes and Nancy

http://www.oliver1968.co.uk/oliver79B.jpg

[Rusks]

Sorry! I wasn't very clear - male or female character suggestions are welcome, though thanks for all those ideas!

[Octavius]

Well you could choose either of all those.

Any preference for era or genre?

[SeaJayPea]

The White Rabbit or, indeed, almost any character from Alice - either Wonderland or Looking-Glass. There are great descriptions and images to work from.

Dracula

Depending on the age of the dresser-up, how about Dorian Grey, before or after?

[Peter Pedant]

george Sand

and or Chopin

g Sand was a woman by the way

[Rusks]

I don't have any preferences for era - just something I could get a costume together for in a week or two!

[EngTeach]

Dorothy from The Wizrd of OZ??? Or any of the characters.

[firewatch]

Mrs haversham, all you need is an old wedding dress!

[Ragged-Robin]

My wife was in Florida and saw lots of similar and familiar white-bearded men; turns out it was the annual Ernest Hemingway look-a-like competition. Next day she saw lots of similar young men to find that was the young Ernest Hemingway look-a-like competition. Failing that, how about the "insect" from Kafka? You could metamorphose as the drink cut in or cut to the chase, go as F Scott Fitzgerald and arrive drunk.