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Animal bladders were use -- see Preston's *Cambises* for a pretty graphic depiction of spurting blood, along with a specific stage direction clarifying the process. Helen Ostovich On 14 May 2010 19:26, Michael O'Connell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Dr H M Ostovich <[log in to unmask]> Editor, Early Theatre Professor, English and Cultural Studies McMaster University Hamilton ON L8S 4L9 Canada