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THE GERMAN PASSION-PLA Y 



eschingen passion-play is the plan of such a stage. 1 

 Supposing this stage to correspond to the choir of a 

 church, we should pass from the nave to the ante-choir 

 by the ' first gate ' (1). Within this first division we find 



FLAT PASSION-PLAY STAGE AFTER MONE. A, B, C, ARE THE THREE DIVISIONS, 



SEPARATED BY THE THREE GATES, 1, 5 AND 13. 



to the left the hell (2) ; to the right, the Garden of Geth- 

 semane (3) and the Mount of Olives (4), the latter 

 probably placed here in order to be ' outside the gates.' 



1 B vol. ii. pp. 156, 184. Among the 'houses' mentioned on the last page 

 cited we find the Magdalen's Garden, the Apothecary's Shop, the Well of 

 Samaria, Lazarus's Grave, etc. 



