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Does this play include the scene from Genesis 3:21 in which "The Lord God made for Adam and his wife, garments of skins, and clothed them."? Btw, our College collection of Russian art has a nice 19th century drawing of Adam & Eve receiving their clothing. You can see it online: http://hulmer.alleg.edu/typology.html#draw The idea that this clothing would be thought of as the skin of apes fits well with the image of fallen humanity. Even if the clothing scene isn't explicit in the play, because the text is canonical, it might have been inserted into the action anyway. Amelia Carr Allegheny College [log in to unmask] At 04:12 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >There is no fall of the angels in the Norwich play; it is a Creation and >Fall of Adam and Eve. There is one angel that stands guard at the gates >of Eden after the expulsion. this is the 1565 version. There is a gap in >the MS of the earlier version between God's appearance in Eden and the >scene with A&E after they have been expelled. So it would appear that the >ape skinns are part of the costume of the angel at the gates of Eden. > > Larry >