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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