Morality Play
Morality Play
Morality
Play:- Morality play is a kind of allegorical drama having
personified abstract qualities as the main characters and presenting a lesson
about good conduct and character,
popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Morality
play, form of medieval drama that developed in the late 14th
century, and flourished through the 16th century. The characters in
the morality were personifications of good and evil usually involved in a
struggle for a man’s soul. The form was generally static, but contributed
significantly to the secularization of European drama. The first known
moralities were called the paternoster plays.
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