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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Morality Plays"”.
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
… productions since the days of the miracle and morality plays. The main distinction between early and late Elizabethan drama seems to be that in the latter, a sense of moral responsibility is often lacking. Lack of moral responsibility, coupled with sensational treatment, is characteristic of …
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Language Domains and Status in Middle Cornish
… the Cornish medieval miracle and saints' lives plays, and a question arising is their use of non-Cornish phrases, which has been remarked on for many years, with no consensus of what their use means. Is there a pattern in its use, or is it random, and does this compare with the English plays and …
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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… participants draw on two major narratives, or morality plays, with which to construct their activist identities. The most significant of these is ‘the Struggle’, the story of the struggle against apartheid. The other is the ‘the TAC Method’, the story of the Treatment Action Campaign’s struggle …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… This study demonstrates their function as modern morality plays for their audiences. Specifically, the two musicals provided Americans with a prescription for a postwar Paradise. This was a Paradise based upon the American Dream of rebirth and renewal acted out in a landscape of second chances. …
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Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre
… and engagement. The communal mystery plays performed on Corpus Christi day in medieval England created a space and time for communicative bodies to tell shared narratives in a ritual effort to strengthen, purify, and heal souls. Performance within the transubstantial chronotope was …
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Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama
Nearly all extant Middle English morality and miracle play-texts can be traced to one place and time: East Anglia in the fifteenth century. This confluence of texts has put scholarship on East Anglian drama in a unique position: on the one hand, scholarship on the surviving plays is regionally …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… Chapter three compares two fifteenth-century morality plays, <italic>Mankind<italic> and the <italic>Castle of Perseverance<italic>. Through a reading of the treatment of mercy in both plays, I suggest that the Castle's departures from traditional accounts of sacramental confession allow the …
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The continuing image of African victimage : Ali A. Mazrui's The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
… can be classified as either Moral Philosophies, Morality Plays, Melodramas, Romances, or Reports. When using the Moral Philosophy, Mazrui assumes the posture of philosopher. In this appeal he presents the general theme of exploitation and seduction of innocent victims at the hands of the villain. …