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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 >> >>