ABSTRACT
The 1971 reconstruction of the New York Mercers' waggon by Alexandra Johnston and Margaret Dorrell following the discovery of the 1433 Indenture, and Peter Meredith's revised and improved version published in the first issue of METh, both took this for granted. Eileen White's highly ingenious diagrams showing the possible orientation of the waggon at street corners on the route are worked out on that assumption. David Crouch's account of the pageant route and its problems, from the point-of-view of one who has been physically involved with the Lords of Misrule's waggon-plays, also seems to take a side-on orientation for granted. As John McKinnell points out, in a tight situation a sideways orientation 'would force the audience too close to a left-side waggon for anyone to get a good straight-on view of the whole stage; a front-on waggon, by contrast, can use as much of the street in front as the audience needs'.
