a play employing allegorical characters, that is, personifications of abstractions, popular in the 15th and 16th centuries but sometimes useful in modern communication from playwright to audience. Example: "Dawn Will Come," a morality play by David Weinstock, 3m.
A play dealing with right and wrong, usually in the form of an allegory.
An allegorical medieval play form, in which the characters represent abstractions (Good Deeds, Death, and so on) and the overall impact of the play is moral instruction. The most famous of these plays in English is the anonymous Everyman (fifteenth century).
an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices
an allegory in which the characters are abstractions of moral ideas
an allegory in which the charactersare abstractions of moral ideas
an allegory where a characters come abstractions of moral ideas
a play in which the characters are goblins, ghost, virgins, and other mythical creatures
A type of medieval allegorical drama organized around the struggle between vices and virtues. The play of Everyman, in which Death visits Everyman (the character) and tells him he cannot take anyone or anything to the grave with him except is Good Deeds, is the outstanding example of this dramatic genre. See also Mystery play.
Medieval drama, often with music, intended to teach proper values.
Morality plays are a type of theatrical allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a Godly life over one of evil. The plays were most popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century; having grown out of the religiously based mystery plays of the Middle Ages, they represented a shift towards a more secular base for European theatre. Examples of morality plays include the French Condemnation des banquets by Nicolas de Chesnaye and the English The Castle of Perseverance, the earliest surviving complete morality play in English, and Everyman, sometimes considered the best of the morality plays.
