1st Edition
The English Morality Play Origins, HIstory, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition
By Robert A Potter
Copyright 1975
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface Prologue 1. The idea of a morality play 2. Medieval plays 3. Renaissance plays 4. Reformation plays 5. Early Elizabethan plays in the morality tradition 6. Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson 7. European plays 8. Rediscovering the evidence 9. Everyman in the Twentieth Century Notes Index
Biography
Robert Potter
