Thanks very much, Clifford. I'll look at this right away.
Michael
Clifford O Davidson wrote:
> See my "sacred Blood and the late Medieval Stage," in my History, Religion, and Vilence: Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama (Ashgate, 2002), esp. 189-91.
>
> Clifford Davidson
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael O'Connell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, May 14, 2010 7:26 pm
> Subject: Query about blood
>
>
>> Does anyone know of records that indicate how the portrayal of the
>> shedding of blood was managed on the late English medieval stage?
>> There
>> are of course a good many references to the blood that Christ sheds
>> in
>> the passion through last judgment pageants, and I'm assuming this
>> was
>> graphically represented. And the slaughter of the innocents was
>> another
>> likely scene of grotesque bloodshed. Were animal bladders or
>> leather
>> sacks used?
>>
>> There are a number of references to French theater in John Spalding
>> Gatton's 1991 essay, and Abigail has put me on to a reference to
>> blood
>> in a leather sack in a Becket play in Canterbury.
>>
>> Are there other records in English sources?
>>
>> Michael O'Connell
>>
>>
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