Morality Play

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434092

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Morality Play by Barry Unsworth Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.

Author : Jessica Pierce
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478609971

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Morality Play by Jessica Pierce Pdf

Morality Play is an ideal supplement for ethics courses, offering a case study approach that is both flexible and practical. It provides three alternative methods of organization for universal teaching approaches: contemporary moral problems, ethical theories, and moral principles. The introduction illustrates how to effectively use case studies in the classroom and provides a short review of the fundamentals of argumentation and critical thinking. Featuring ten new case studies, the latest edition continues to spotlight some of the most controversial, thought-provoking issues in ethics today. Themes such as crime and punishment, life and death, habitat and humanity, liberty and coercion, and value and culture are made relevant through insightful case studies drawn from newspaper accounts, legal opinions, and other factual sources. The cases present discrete problems designed to make readers examine their abstract notions about morality.

Author : Jean L. Briggs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300080646

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Inuit Morality Play by Jean L. Briggs Pdf

"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the consequences of the child's answers. They are enacting in larger-than-life form the plots that drive Inuit social life--testing, acting out problems, entertaining themselves, and, most of all, bringing up their children. In a riveting narrative, psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The book examines the issues that engaged the child--belonging, possession, love--and shows the process of her growing. Briggs questions the nature of "sharedness" in culture and assumptions about how culture is transmitted. She suggests that both cultural meanings and strong personal commitment to one's world can be (and perhaps must be) acquired not by straightforwardly learning attitudes, rules, and habits in a dependent mode but by experiencing oneself as an agent engaged in productive conflict in emotionally problematic situations. Briggs finds that dramatic play is an essential force in Inuit social life. It creates and supports values; engenders and manages attachments and conflicts; and teaches and maintains an alert, experimental, constantly testing approach to social relationships.

Author : Ineke Murakami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136807114

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Moral Play and Counterpublic by Ineke Murakami Pdf

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-11-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226869849

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The Moro Morality Play by Robin Wagner-Pacifici Pdf

On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN : 057366241X

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Everyman, a Morality Play by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827928

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher Pdf

The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1015613152

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Everyman by Anonymous Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Mike McNamee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134649785

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Sports, Virtues and Vices by Mike McNamee Pdf

Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. The central theme running through the book is that sports are effectively modern morality plays: universal practices of moral education for the masses and - when coached, officiated and played properly - a valuable vehicle for ethical development. Including a wealth of contemporary sporting examples, the book explores key ethical issues such as: How the pursuit of sporting excellence can lead to harm Doping, greed and shame Biomedical technology as a challenge to the virtue of elite athletes Defining a ‘virtue ethical account’ in sport Family vices and virtues in sport Written by one of the world's foremost sports philosophers, this book powerfully unites the fields of sports ethics and medical ethics. It is essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in the ethics and philosophy of sport.

Author : Robert A Potter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000928624

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The English Morality Play by Robert A Potter Pdf

First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle plays, its subject, purpose, conditions of original staging, and the abstract characters of its dramatis personae. The changing tradition is revealed within Renaissance drama, in the works of Skelton and Medwall, and the Reformation plays of Lindsay, Bale and Udall, as the morality play altered under the pressure of political events, escaped from the general suppression of religious drama, and in complex ways came to influence the dramatic conceptions of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Contemporary parallels to the English morality tradition in European drama are investigated, as is the rediscovery of the texts of the plays by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critics. In the final chapter, Dr. Potter examines the revival of the morality tradition on the twentieth-century stage and its influence on such dramatists as Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Bertolt Brecht. This book will be of interest to students of literature and drama.

Author : Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237228

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Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pdf

This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.

Author : G.A. Lester
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144084

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Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind and Mundus et Infans by G.A. Lester Pdf

"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 temptation. The bawdy humour and violent action in the play serve to make the moral point and instruct by example. Everyman portrays a man's struggles in the face of death to raise himself to a state of grace so that he may experience everlasting life. It is exceptional among the Moralities for this narrow focus on the last phase of life, and conveys its message with awe-inspiring seriousness. Mundus et Infans is more typical of the Morality genre. It shows an arrogant, bullying protagonist led astray by a single evildoer into a life of debauchery, before the inevitable conversion to virtue. In showing the whole of man's life it is the antithesis of Everyman, the action of which seems to take place in a single day.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341751006

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The Castle of Perseverance by Anonymous Pdf

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Author : James M. Olson
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597973120

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Fair Play by James M. Olson Pdf

In the high-stakes world of spying, do the ends justify the means?

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Regicides in literature
ISBN : 9780791081761

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Macbeth by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of critical essays concerning Shakespeare's tragic play of tyranny, revenge, and mental anguish.