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Author : Elbert N. S. Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
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 : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)
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.:/5 (334 download)
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 : Elbert Nevius Sebring 1877 Thompson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362225782
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)
Download or read book ENGLISH MORAL PLAYS written by Elbert Nevius Sebring 1877 Thompson and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Edgar Schell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 : Noam Reisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100946244X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama written by Noam Reisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.
Author : William Anthony Davenport
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifteenth-century English Drama written by William Anthony Davenport and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ineke Murakami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113680711X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
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 : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100035010X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays written by Vivian Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
Author : Anonymous
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ISBN 13 : 9781420978001
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
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 : Jessica Pierce
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609974
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Morality Play written by Jessica Pierce and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality Play is an ideal supplement for ethics courses, offering a case study approach that is both flexible and practical. It provides three alternative methods of organization for universal teaching approaches: contemporary moral problems, ethical theories, and moral principles. The introduction illustrates how to effectively use case studies in the classroom and provides a short review of the fundamentals of argumentation and critical thinking. Featuring ten new case studies, the latest edition continues to spotlight some of the most controversial, thought-provoking issues in ethics today. Themes such as crime and punishment, life and death, habitat and humanity, liberty and coercion, and value and culture are made relevant through insightful case studies drawn from newspaper accounts, legal opinions, and other factual sources. The cases present discrete problems designed to make readers examine their abstract notions about morality.
Author : Erich Eng
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The English morality plays and humor written by Erich Eng and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous Playwrights
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1801700672
Total Pages : 2941 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Mystery and Morality Plays - The Delphi Edition (Illustrated) written by Anonymous Playwrights and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 2941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery and morality play were two of the three principal kinds of vernacular drama in Europe during the Middle Ages. Mystery plays, usually representing biblical subjects, developed from dramas presented in Latin by churchmen on sacred premises, depicting subjects like the Creation, Adam and Eve and the Last Judgment. They were often performed together in cycles which could last for days at special festivals and occasions. The morality play is an allegorical drama, in which the characters personify moral qualities and undergo didactic lessons. The action centres on a hero, such as Mankind, whose inherent weaknesses are assaulted by personified diabolic forces like the Seven Deadly Sins, but who may choose redemption and enlist the aid of such figures as Mercy, Justice, Temperance and Truth. This eBook presents a comprehensive collection of mystery and morality plays, with numerous illustrations, rare medieval texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Please note: due to the book‐burning zeal of the English Reformation, no English text of a ‘miracle play’ survives and so an example of this drama cannot appear in this edition. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to mystery and morality plays * Concise introductions to the major cycles and plays * All of the plays of the four principal mystery play cycles (York, Wakefield, N-Town and Chester) * The plays appear in the form of their original Middle English texts * Many rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing * All extant English morality plays from the Middle Ages * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special Middle English glossary of words to aid your reading of the plays * Special contextual section, with four essays charting the development of drama in the Middle Ages * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Mystery Plays York Mystery Plays (c. mid-14th century) Wakefield Mystery Plays (mid-15th century) N-Town Plays (late 15th century) Chester Mystery Plays (15th century) The Morality Plays The Pride of Life (late 14th century) The Castle of Perseverance (c. 1425) Wisdom (c. 1460) Mankind (c. 1470) Nature (c. 1495) by Henry Medwall Everyman (1510) Contextual Works Miracle Plays and Mysteries (1913) by Georges Michel Bertrin English Miracle Plays (1914) by Arnold Wynne Moralities and Interludes (1914) by Arnold Wynne Rise of the Drama (1921) by Andrew Lang Glossary of Middle English Words Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introd. Additions and corrections. The origin of the English drama. The beginnings of the English regular drama. Shakespere's predecessors. Shakspere. Ben Jonson written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Lee Bates
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The English Religious Drama written by Katharine Lee Bates and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Mills Gayley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Representative English Comedies written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289847593
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The English Moral Plays - Primary Source Edition written by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
