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Books on: morality drama

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As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality

Book by Alfred Harbage; Macmillan, 1947

Subjects:

Didactic Drama, English--History And Criticism, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Ethics

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...distinguishes the action of drama from acrobatic display...that he deals with morality. The greater dramatist...to us the higher morality, and his Polonius...character in the drama is largely a matter...highest praise as morality, and such works as...fiction, in novel and drama, barricades us with...
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English Domestic Or, Homiletic Tragedy, 1575 to 1642: Being an Account of the Development of the Tragedy of the Common Man Showing Its Great Dependence on Religious Morality, Illustrated with Striking Examples of the Interposition of Providence for the Amendment of Men's Manners

Book by Henry Hitch Adams; Columbia University Press, 1943

Subjects:

English Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History And Criticism, Religion In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dependence on Religious Morality , Illustrated with...which existed in drama in the last decade...In the English morality plays, this person...character for serious drama. Domestic tragedy...investigations of the drama of the period. Critics...coincide with Christian morality. A dramatist uses...
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Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century

Book by Kent Cartwright; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

England--Intellectual Life--16th Century, English Drama--Early Modern And Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History And Criticism, Humanists--England, Renaissance--England, Theater--England--History--16th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be ...
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English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theater was censured as emotional and even immoral. How could such a change occur? Kent Cartwright suggests that some theories of early Renaissance theater need to be reconsidered. He proposes that humanist drama of the sixteenth century is theatrically exciting and socially significant, and he attempts to integrate popular and humanist values rather than setting them against each other.
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World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh

Book by Allardyce Nicoll; Harcourt Brace, 1950

Subjects:

Drama--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

WORLD DRAMA By the Same Author THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEATRE BRITISH DRAMA THE THEATRE AND DRAMATIC THEORY Etc. WORLD DRAMA FROM AESCHYLUS TO ANOUILH BY ALLARDYCE NICOLL With Sixty-four Plates in Half-tone...
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Staging Faith: East Anglian Drama in the Later Middle Ages

Book by Victor I. Scherb; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Christian Drama, English (Middle)--England--East Anglia--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--East Anglia--History--To 1500, East Anglia (England)--Church History, East Anglia (England)--Civilization, English Drama--To 1500--History And Criticism, Moralities, English--England--East Anglia--History And Criticism, Mysteries And Miracle-Plays, English--East Anglis--History And Criticism, Theater--England--East Anglia--History--Medieval, 500-1500

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pious memory, medita- tion, and devotion in its own right. Drama was not just the container of devotional images, however...plays their topical edge that is further reinforced by the morality form and the use of contemporary allusion. Ex- ploiting both...

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Journal Articles on: morality drama

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Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama

Journal article by William C. Carroll; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, 2001

Subjects:

English drama--Information services, English literature--Information services

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...recent criticism. Proponents of a morality-play based analysis of early modern...have tended to discuss humanist drama in formalist terms (five-act structures...theatricality ... associated with popular morality drama" (p. 6). Cartwright proposes exploring...
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"Bodied Forth": Spectator, Stage, and Actor in the Early Modern Theater

Journal article by Jennifer A. Low; Comparative Drama, Vol. 39, 2005

Subjects:

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Romeo and Juliet (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...playwrights tended to draw on the morality tradition, engendering what she...abstraction" a moment when psychological drama reverts to almost archetypal patterns...the links between Renaissance drama and the morality in a way that undermines longstanding...
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Marriage in Late-Medieval German Easter and Shrovetide Plays

Journal article by Albrecht Classen; Comparative Drama, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

Art, Medieval, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Marriage--Portrayals, Medieval art, Plays--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Surprisingly, neither drama specialists nor social...plays, Passion and Morality plays, Shrovetide...sixteenth century, morality plays gained in popularity...in late-medieval drama, I would like to...marriage. Unfortunately, drama scholarship has mostly...the teaching of morality, farce, gestures...
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Tragedy and Timon of Athens

Journal article by Robert B. Pierce; Comparative Drama, 2002

Subjects:

Dramatic criticism, Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Timon of Athens (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tragedies (Drama)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...University Press, 1960); for the morality genre see below, n. 9; M. C...Timon of Athens," Comparative Drama 33 (1999): 56-87. For a Leavisite...Timon within the allegorical morality tradition, see J. C. Maxwell...Walker, "Timon of Athens and the Morality Tradition," Shakespeare Studies...
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Meanings of All for Love, 1677-1813

Journal article by Tanya Caldwell; Comparative Drama, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

All for Love: or, The World Well Lost (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Works, English drama--Criticism and interpretation, English drama--Works, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...277. (51) See Brean Hammonds discussion of this shift in drama and novels in his Professional Imaginative Writing in England...Harriet Guest, "On the Use of Contradiction: Economics and Morality in the Eighteenth-Century Long Poem," in The New Eighteenth...

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Magazine Articles on: morality drama

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Victorian Virtues: Black-and-White Morality Takes on an Unexpected Colour

Magazine article by John Lyttle; New Statesman, Vol. 134, November 14, 2005

Subjects:

Gardeners--Services, Morality--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

Victorian Virtues: Black-and-White Morality Takes on an Unexpected Colour. by John Lyttle The...thriller Strange Days and somehow transmute sci-fi into costume drama. Fiennes cant do common--his Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights...
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My Yiddisha Drama

Magazine article by David Olivenbaum; American Theatre, Vol. 10, April 1993

Subjects:

Theater--Jews, Yiddish drama--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Schildkraut, and of Yiddish drama as a whole. When the production...too much for finicky American morality. The show was closed, and the...characterization of the father, who sees morality in polar extremes and seeks...him behind. This is not the morality tale of a plutocrat brought...
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'The Vietnam Syndrome' : THE KERREY REVELATIONS RAISE ANEW ISSUES OF MORALITY AND MILITARY POWER

Magazine article by Richard Falk; The Nation, Vol. 273, July 9, 2001

Subjects:

Kerrey, Bob--Interviews, Legislators--Interviews, McCain, John--Interviews, Morality of war, Vietnam--Military aspects, War--Ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...figure was involved, engaging media interest because of the glamorous story line of a dramatic fall from grace. The personal drama was enriched by Kerreys recent designation as the president of New School University, an institution whose initial role was...
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Drama on the Border: A Feisty Arizona Theatre Dives Headlong into the Immigration Debate

Magazine article by Kerri Allen; American Theatre, Vol. 23, December 2006

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Drama--Forecasts and trends, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Forecasts and trends, Theaters--Services

Collections: Entire Library

...support of District Tribal Council leader Jose Olivas (played by Jose R. Matus), who does not see eye-to-eye with him: JOSE: My morality obligates me to our people here on this reservation. Two...
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Beyond Morality

Magazine article by Paul Dean; New Criterion, Vol. 21, December 2002

Subjects:

Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...lineal descendants of the medieval drama, above all in their refusal to...cant achieve. It is simply beyond morality. Doctor Faustus remains Marlowes...fusion of the techniques of medieval morality drama--which locates moral choice in...

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Newspaper Articles on: morality drama

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Faithful Nazi's Dilemma; Duty, Morality in Tug of War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 12, 2007

Subjects:

Gerstein, Kurt, Keneally, Thomas, Morality

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...man and - party member. How Mr. Gerstein reconciles duty and morality in light of the Nazi atrocities he personally witnesses is...Thomas Keneallys first venture into playwriting, the historical drama "Either Or." The frequently fiery examination of the nature...
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My O My, This Is Must-See Modern Morality

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 20, 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

My O My, This Is Must-See Modern Morality. Byline: QUENTIN LETTS O Go My Man (Royal Court) Verdict...too seriously, the Royal Court rang to laughter this week. The drama generating this response? An expletive-peppered Irish play about...
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Morality Play: Brilliant Minds or Mad Bombers?

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 3, 2005

Subjects:

Bohr, Niels, Frayn, Michael

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Morality Play: Brilliant Minds or Mad Bombers? Byline: Paul Denison The Register-Guard Michael Frayns ``Copen- hagen is about...again. The Lord Leebrick Theatre, where "Copenhagen" will open on Friday, is not a classroom. Frayns Tony Award-winning drama ``has nothing to do with a lesson in physics, University of Oregon physics professor Russell Donnelly writes in program...
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Morality Tale Proves to Be More Than Sum of Ricci's Parts

Newspaper article by Dann Gire; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 2, 2007

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Morality Tale Proves to Be More Than Sum of Riccis Parts. by...who wowed audiences and critics with his 2005 Oscar-winning drama "Hustle Flow." Music became an effortless motif there...Ricci in chains. But under the tawdry sensationalism, Brewers drama is a profound celebration of the human capacity for spiritual...
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Books: Darkness in the White House; This Presidential Thriller Is a Morality Tale Which Draws You in and Gets You Hooked

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 5, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...House; This Presidential Thriller Is a Morality Tale Which Draws You in and Gets You Hooked...But to be truly gripped by this powerful drama youve got to understand just how thorny...rigorous, compulsive, this is an intelligent drama thatll put your own moral fibre through...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: morality drama

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Morality Play

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MORALITY PLAY form of medieval drama that developed in the late 14th cent...to the secularization of European drama. The first known moralities were called...Paternoster plays. The greatest English morality is Everyman . See miracle play...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...play ). The morality play , a third type of religious drama, appeared early in the 15th cent. Morality plays were religious...Another type of drama popular in medieval...characteristics of the morality play that is primarily...Renaissance Drama By the advent...
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Tragedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...roots go back once again to religious drama, in this case the mystery and morality plays of medieval England, France, and Germany (see miracle play ; morality play ). Unlike classical drama, these plays, of which Everyman is...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...commedia dellarte , in mock liturgical dramas, and in the farcical elements of miracle and morality plays. With the advent of the Renaissance, a new and vital drama emerged. In England in the 16th cent. the tradition of the interlude , developed by...
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Scribe, Augustin EugÈne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the first playwrights to mirror bourgeois morality and life, he infused 19th-century French opera and drama with liberal political and religious ideas...Bataille de Dames (1851). His historical drama Adrienne Lecouvreur (1849) was later adapted...

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