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- W2241036451 abstract "The allegorical drama written in England during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is one of literary history’s most static genres. Though performed decades apart, plays like The Castle of Perseverance (c. 1400–25), Mankind (c. 1450), Magnyfycence (c. 1519) and Wyt and Science (c. 1531–47) tell similar stories of temptation, fall and regeneration. In every extant morality and most surviving interludes, personified virtues and vices contend over passive protagonists incapable of understanding or ameliorating their predicaments. Precisely because this drama privileges abstract types over sharply particularized examples, it resists formalist attempts to distinguish one play from another. One morality may feature more exuberant vices than another, or one may exhibit an unusually Latinate syntax, but their overall dramatic conception remains constant. This chapter interprets this constancy itself in relation to the interactions of economic, demographic, political and religious developments in late medieval society. Allegorical entertainments could serve widely varying ends depending on the audiences for whom they were performed and the values they were supposed to uphold." @default.
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- W2241036451 title "The allegorical theatre: moralities, interludes, and Protestant drama" @default.
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