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Title
Three late medieval morality plays - Mankind, Everyman, Mundus et infans
Three late medieval morality plays - Mankind, Everyman, Mundus et infans
Author
G. A Lester
G. A Lester
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20021220
20021220
Description
"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.
Mankindis 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 everlasting life. It is exceptional among the Moralities for this narrow focus on the last phase of life, and conveys its message with awe-inspiring seriousness.
Mundus et Infansis more typical of the Morality genre. It shows an arrogant, bullying protagonist led astray by a single evildoer into a life of debauchery, before the inevitable conversion to virtue. In showing the whole of man's life it is the antithesis of Everyman, the action of which seems to take place in a single day.
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