Three Late Medieval Morality Play: A New Mermaids Anthology

by G.A. Lester

Book Overview

"Take example, all ye that this do hear or see..."

The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten.

Mankind is a plain, honest farming man who struggles against worldly and spiritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713666617
• ISBN13: 9780713666618
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"