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What (who) is morality play - definition
Morality play
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GENRE OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY TUDOR THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT
Morality plays; Morality tale; Moral interlude; Morality Play; Morality drama
The morality play is a genre of medieval and early Tudor drama. The term is used by scholars of literary and dramatic history to refer to a genre of play texts from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries that feature personified concepts (most often virtues and vices, but sometimes practices or habits) alongside angels and demons, who are engaged in a struggle to persuade a protagonist who represents a generic human character toward either good or evil.
morality play
GENRE OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY TUDOR THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT
Morality plays; Morality tale; Moral interlude; Morality Play; Morality drama
¦ noun a kind of drama presenting a moral lesson and having personified abstract qualities as the main characters, popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Morality Play (novel)
1995 NOVEL BY BARRY UNSWORTH
Barry Unsworth's "Morality Play"
Morality Play is a semi-historical detective novel by Barry Unsworth. The book, published in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Examples of use of morality play
1. All the same, it is necessary to draw a line while presenting what happened as a kind of morality play of good versus evil.
2. It was pilloried as a scatological indulgence whereas, in my view, it‘s the reverse – a morality play about a world in anarchy.
3. Dispassionate, calm, maybe a little too quiet, McNamee refused to get caught up in the morality play of the baseball icon who sat a few feet from him.
4. Foreign policy is not a morality play âЂ« and free lunches are rarely available, especially not from Mr Putin for perceived adversaries.
5. And how Washington rubbished its old, time–tested ally ("Shevvy") was for Central Asian leaderships a morality play about the ephemeral nature of American friendships.