_II. GROUND-PLAN_ 69 _III. COSTUMES_ GNOME, TREE, ELF 78 BEAR, WOLF, LION 78 JOSEPH, MARY, SHEPHERDS 78 HOST, HEROD, CAPTAIN 78 BELSHASAR, CASPAR, MELCHIOR 78 FOLLOWERS OF BELSHASAR, CASPAR, MELCHIOR 78 SORROW, SONG, DEATH, POVERTY 78 RUTH, CLAUS, CHILDREN, CHORUS B 78 _PERSONS AND GROUPS_ In the Order of their Appearance PERSONS ELF GNOME TREE WOLF BEAR LION JOSEPH MARY (Mute) SHEPHERD CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF HEROD HEROD BELSHASAR MELCHIOR CASPAR RUTH CLAUS SONG (Mute) SORROW (Mute) DEATH POVERTY (Mute) GROUPS SHEPHERDS HOST OF HEROD FOLLOWERS OF THE THREE KINGS OUTCASTS: FOLLOWERS OF SONG, SORROW AND POVERTY For Army Camp productions, in camps where it may not be practicable to have women as acting principals, the two mute female figures, MARY and SONG, may—if necessary—be omitted, and RUTH be acted by some well-skilled youth, as was the custom in Elizabethan days. The part of TREE, in any production, may be acted either by a young woman or by a young man (in small-scale productions preferably by a young woman). ELF and GNOME are preferably acted by children: a girl and a boy, or—if desirable—by two boys. In Chorus A, and in the first Semi-Chorus of the Outcasts, choir boys may, if need be, take the places of women. _CHORUSES AND CAROLS_ CHORUSES _First Action_ I. (A,1) Chorus of the Wilderness. _Fourth Action_ II. (A,2) Light of the World. _Fourth Action_ III. (A,3) The Star. _Fifth Action_ IV. (B,1) The Might of Herod. _Fifth Action_ V. (A,4 B,2) The Wrath of Herod. _Fifth and Eleventh_ VI. and X. Song of the Persecuting Host. (B,3 and 4) _Sixth Action_ VII. and VIII. Glory and Serenity. (A,5 and 6) _Ninth Action_ IX. (A,7) Dirge of the Outcasts. _Twelfth Action_ XI. (A,8 and B,5) Chorus of the Christmas Tree. Part I: The Pedlar-King. Part II: The Tree. Part III: The Child. CAROLS