Morality Plays

From the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.

Everyman is late-15th-century English morality play. Called by Death, Everyman can persuade none of his friends -- Beauty, Kindred, Worldly Goods -- to go with him, except Good Deeds.

A treatyse how yt hye fader of heuen sendeth dethe to somon euery creature to come and gyue counte of theyr liues in this worlde and is in maner of a morall playe.

An English medieval morality play, written c.1470. The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance.

Texts of ''The Castle of Perseverance'' and the N-Town Plays.

A description of morality plays, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

The manuscript of The Castle of Perseverance has been dated from about 1440. The modernization is based on the conviction that much of the flavour of the play is carried through the poetry.

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