Romance of Alexander, f. 54v: a puppet show

Romance of Alexander, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Bodl. 264, folio 54v. Below the story of Alexander the Great, a curtained booth with a little battlemented top has been set up on the border, and in its window two glove puppets square off, one swinging a green club. Three girls sit pressed…

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