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Does the Norwich Creation Play include a Fall of the Angels along with the Fall of Man? If so, perhaps these "over hose" were shaggy and ape-like (if not made of ape skin) and were meant to be pulled on over a fallen angel's original hose when this angel became a devil. Some sort of costume change would certainly be required. I can't explain, though, why the inventory includes only one angel's coat Gloria Betcher At 01:48 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >Angels' legs might have feathers, but were never hairy. Furry legs were >reserved for devils. > >Cliff Davidson > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Gloria J Betcher wrote: > >> At 12:44 PM 2/16/00 -0500, Alan Baragona wrote: >> >Well, the Norwich inventory does pair "apis skinns" with an "angel cote," >> but I >> >took it to be a contrast. Perhaps not. That's a very interesting >> possibility. >> > >> >Alan B. >> > >> >> I tend to agree with Larry that these over-hose might have been used to >> give the angel's legs a shaggy appearance. It doesn't seem likely that this >> entry contains a contrast of costume items. If one looks at David >> Galloway's _REED: Norwich, 1540-1642_, one will find a number of other >> pairings of cotes and hose in the same 1565 (I think) inventory for the >> Grocers, which seems to suggest these were sets of costume pieces. >> >> Gloria Betcher >> *************************** >> Dept. of English >> Iowa State University >> 206 Ross Hall >> Ames, IA 50011 >> (515) 294-3026 >> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher >> >