morality play
an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
Origin of morality play
1- Compare miracle play, mystery play.
Words Nearby morality play
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Either way, four complex decades were reduced to a morality play.
How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus) | Kurt Andersen | March 21, 2021 | FreakonomicsThis is an ugly story of fragile democracy and brute force, but it is not a simple morality play.
“The McMartin case began as a morality play about the failure to protect children,” he writes.
How the ‘Witch Hunt’ Myth Undermined American Justice | Jason Berry | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt ended as a morality play about the failure to protect civil liberties…[and] the complete negation of the evidence of abuse.
How the ‘Witch Hunt’ Myth Undermined American Justice | Jason Berry | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis anti-moralistic political drama is a morality play on the value of political thought, and the importance of doing it well.
Daenerys Goes to Washington: The Modern Politics of ‘Game of Thrones’ | Jedediah Purdy | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is truly the catalyst for the final act of our morality play.
Why ‘Sons of Anarchy’s’ Controversial Season Premiere Twist Was a Mistake | Jason Lynch | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe log line seemed to telegraph a saccharine morality play on the dangers of vices and excess.
Fall-Winter TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2013–14’s New Shows | Jace Lacob, Kevin Fallon | July 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother form of the medieval drama, the morality play, had its origin in the 15th century,—or else very late in the 14th.
After the pageant came the May pole dancers and the wandering musicians, the morality play and the rustic dances.
Molly Brown's Senior Days | Nell SpeedIt is a curious reproduction, with a slight difference in cast, of the morality play of an earlier time.
Another little drama of Mr. O'Riordan, "Time," is almost a morality play.
Irish Plays and Playwrights | Cornelius WeygandtIn the main, he suggests abstract intellect performing in a morality play, exhibiting no emotion but intellectual pride.
Herbert Spencer | J. Arthur Thomson
British Dictionary definitions for morality play
a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices
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