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Definition of Morality play
1. Noun. An allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices.
Definition of Morality play
1. Noun. a type of allegorical drama towards the end of the Middle Ages that demonstrates a moral theme such as a character's inner struggle to attain moral enlightenment or salvation ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Morality Play
Literary usage of Morality play
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In England, however, we have not extant examples of all the four, though the
morality play is well represented in our literature. ..."
2. English Pageantry: An Historical Outline by Robert Withington (1920)
"Perhaps the pageant gave allegory to the morality-play, though this point needs
further investigation. It is possible that, having received allegory from ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"Ane Pleasant Satyre is a morality play, but it is also something more. It is a
blend of secular and sacred drama, and embodies something of the French ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Another form of the medieval drama, the morality play, had its origin in the isth
... The morality play is merely a dramatized allegory, and derives its ..."
5. The Passion Play of Oberammergau by Montrose Jonas Moses (1909)
"... Doc- tour in the .morality play, "Everyman," and the Prologue or Chorus in
such chronicle plays of Shakespeare as "Henry V." Another distinctive feature ..."
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