The Passion-Play at Ober-Ammergau

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... What We Witnessed IT will be best, I think, to give the programme of the Play, and then comment on it in detail. From 8 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. it proceeds without a break, and then an hour and a half is allowed for luncheon and rest. The Play resumes at the stroke of one o'clock by the cannon, and goes on for another four and a half hours to the end. Omitting the interval, the performance takes eight hours in all. The interval is between the first and second divisions in the following programme: -- Ifirst Division PROLOGUE Tableaux 1. Adam and Eve expelled Paradise. 2. The Redemption--Adoration of the Cross. ACT I Griumpbal Entrg into Jerusalem Scenes 1. Christ casts out the money-lenders from the Temple. 2. Priests and people. 3. Dathan and the money-changers. ACT II assemble of tbe fMgb Council Tableau Joseph's brethren plot his death. Scenes 1. The Sanhedrim. 2. Caiaphas and priests. 3. Caiaphas and money-changers. 4. Caiaphas and Annas. ACT III Xeave=tafcing at JBetbang Tableaux 1. Tobias quits home. 2. The Bride of the Canticles. Scenes 1. Christ and the Twelve. 2. Simon meets and invites him. They go in, and also Lazarus and Martha. 3. Simon's supper-chamber. 4. Christ with Martha and Mary (here Magdalen). The anointing. Evil enters Judas's heart. 5. His disciples urge him not to go to Jerusalem. 6. The Virgin's farewell. Jesus desires Simon to take care of his Mother, and she goes into Simon's house with the women. ACT IV Xaet Wisit to Jerusalem Tableau Ahasuerus puts away Vashti for Esther. Scenes 1. Jesus laments over Jerusalem. He sends on Peter and John to prepare. z. Christ and Judas. 3. Judas does not follow. 4. Judas is tempted alone, and then by Dathan and other money-changers. 5. Judas alone and resolved. 6. Peter and John...