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Morality play   /mərˈæləti pleɪ/   Listen
Morality play

noun
1.
An allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices.





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"Morality play" Quotes from Famous Books



... with these two, who shape their course by the light of their own souls, the authorised exponents of morality play a secondary and for the most part a sorry part. The old Pope mournfully reflects that his seven years' tillage of the garden of the Church has issued only in the "timid leaf and the uncertain bud," while the perfect flower, Pompilia, has sprung up by the wayside ...
— Robert Browning • C. H. Herford
... than on the rostrum. Where it falls short of reality is in the dialogue of the aldermen. No politicians, even when egged by their envious womankind, would ever give themselves away as do these of "A Tale of a Town." They are as frankly self-revelatory as if they were characters in a morality play. ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... were the outcome of the Mysteries; they were either allegorical or else taken from the Parables, or from the historical events in the Bible. The chief Moralities were Everyman, Lusty Juventus, Good Counsel, and Repentance. The oldest English Morality play now extant is The Castle of Perseverance, written about 1450. It is a dramatic allegory of human life representing the many conflicting influences that surround man on his way through the world. Lusty Juventus depicts in a vivid and humorous ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis


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