English Moral Plays

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525434097
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality Play written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.

Author : Robert A Potter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000928624
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Morality Play written by Robert A Potter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle plays, its subject, purpose, conditions of original staging, and the abstract characters of its dramatis personae. The changing tradition is revealed within Renaissance drama, in the works of Skelton and Medwall, and the Reformation plays of Lindsay, Bale and Udall, as the morality play altered under the pressure of political events, escaped from the general suppression of religious drama, and in complex ways came to influence the dramatic conceptions of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Contemporary parallels to the English morality tradition in European drama are investigated, as is the rediscovery of the texts of the plays by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critics. In the final chapter, Dr. Potter examines the revival of the morality tradition on the twentieth-century stage and its influence on such dramatists as Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Bertolt Brecht. This book will be of interest to students of literature and drama.

Author : Elbert N. S. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Moral Plays written by Elbert N. S. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ineke Murakami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113680711X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Play and Counterpublic written by Ineke Murakami and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.

Author : Edgar Schell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Morality Plays and Moral Interludes written by Edgar Schell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420978001
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyman written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, "Everyman" is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. "Everyman" is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of mankind. God, frustrated with the wicked and greedy, sends Death to Everyman and summons him to account for his misdeeds and sins. It was believed that God tallied all of one's good and evil deeds in life and then one must provide an accounting before God upon one's death. During Everyman's pilgrimage to God, he meets many characters, such as Fellowship, Good Deeds, and Knowledge. Everyman asks them all to join him in his journey so that he may improve his reckoning before God. In the end, it is only Good Deeds that stays with him before God and helps Everyman find salvation and eternal life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Moral Plays written by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Moral Plays written by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231089388
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660: Plays and their makers to 1576 written by Glynne William Gladstone Wickham and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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