While texts are exciting, it has been said that one picture is worth a
thousand words.
For those interested in visual presentations of the mystery plays of
England, I suggest that they look at the contemporary wall paintings in
Denmark. I am about half finished with a paper to be placed in ORB on the
parallels between the texts and other documents, property lists, stage
directions, etc, and the wall paintings. If you go to
<http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/artarch/Danish/Danindex.html>
you will find some images of Nativity's dated 1400-1625. From there you
should also be able to find the Nativity's dated 1100-1400.
Regards to all, Jim Mills
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