Excerpt from The Passion Play of Oberammergau: Translated From the German Text With an Historical Introduction The vital essence of the Oberammergau Passion Play is the spirit poured into the mod ified form - a Spirit dominating the social, economic, and intellectual life of the people; time alone will tell whether the communal ideal and whether the communal mission, which guard the minds and hearts of two thousand Bavarian peasants, will be able in isolated reverence to withstand the sufi'using forces of civilization; every decade opens the sluices, and the village of Ammergau has to meet the demands of a transitory and curious crowd. The building of the new theatre for the production of 1900 is part example of how time and circumstance work against tradition. 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.