THE OBER-AMMERGAU

PASSION PLAY

(Reprinted, by permission, from the "TIMES")

WITH SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN AND
DEVELOPMENT OF MIRACLE PLAYS, AND SOME PRACTICAL

HINTS FOR THE USE OF INTENDING VISITORS

BY THE

REV. MALCOLM MACCOLL, M.A.

HON.

CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HƠN. LORD NAPIER, K.T.

Fourth Edition, with a New Appendix, giving a continuous description of the
Scenes and Tableaux of the Play, in the order in which they take place.

RIVINGTONS

London, Oxford, and Cambridge

1871

Max Coll

NAFM

If on any of these days there are more visitors than the theatre will hold, the play is repeated on the following day.

PREFACE

TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

HOSE who intend to visit Ober-Ammergau

THO

this year will be glad to learn that the principal characters remain unchanged. A few of the actors in the subordinate parts, among them Simon of Cyrene, "have remained behind in France," as Madame George Lang euphemistically puts it in a letter which she has been good enough to write to me. Joseph Gutzjell, the conductor of the orchestra, and my kind host last year, has left the place; but the villagers are very musical, and they have supplied his place without difficulty.