Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans
A New Mermaids Anthology
Take example, all ye that this do hear or see... The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten. Mankind is a plain, honest farming man who struggles against worldly and spiritual temptation. The bawdy humour and violent action in the play serve to make the moral point and instruct by example. Everyman portrays a man's struggles in the face of death to raise himself to a state of grace so that he may experience ever…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4081-4407-7
- EAN: 9781408144077
- Produktnummer: 17008336
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'834 KB
- Abbildungen: c 5 photographs/line drawings
Über den Autor
G. A. Lester has taught Medieval Language and Literature in Britain and the U.S.A. and has published books and articles on The Anglo-Saxons, Middle English Manuscripts, Chaucer, Medieval Drama, and Heraldic Literature.
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