The Story That Transformed the World
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Excerpt from The Story That Transformed the World: Or the Passion Play at Ober Ammergau in 1890 Twenty years ago I visited Ober Ammergau for the first time to obtain a little rest and to witness a performance which was being very warmly discussed throughout the whole of Christendom. Nothing was further from my thoughts than to write a book about it. But imagine my astonishment on discovering that not one of the so - called "Guidebooks" had the faintest claim to give an account of the Passion Play as it was actually being played. I therefore set to work and succeeded in producing a very accurate text of the Play. So accurate indeed that it was used by the performers themselves in studying their parts. The popularity of this book proved so great that in 1900 an official German Textbook was issued for the first time. I again brought out my guide in that year and the reception of it was so hearty that I am once more producing the work. This year, however, by special arrangement with the Community I am using the Official German Text which differs slightly from the text I used in 1890 and 1900. So that the text in the following pages is exactly the same as that used in the Official German Version issued by the Community. As to the English version which I have printed on opposite pages it will be observed that I have departed from the usual method of giving a merely textual translation. While translating as closely as possible the actual text I have thrown the speeches of the performers into a narrative so that while following the movement of the play the accompanying description will enable the spectator at any moment to find his place. Where so much depends upon the action that takes place on the stage, the mere words convey little or no idea of what is actually Happening and the only alternatives were either to perpetually interrupt the text of the drama by numerous stage directions, or to throw the whole of the dialogue into the form of a narrative. I have adopted the latter course, not only because it is most simple, but because it will enable thousands who will never visit Ober Ammergau to read the story without the difficulty that invariably attends the reading of a drama. By special arrangement with the Community I am again able to publish photographs of the play. Unfortunately however only those of the individual players were available when this book went to press. The tableaux and the principal scenes being photographed later. I have therefore used the photos of the tableaux of 1900. These are exactly similar in grouping and general effect to those presented this year and in many of them the principal performers are the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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