Characterizations of otherness in the sixteenth century moral plays and their morality antecedents

Beginning with an analysis of the nature of the Morality play and its near relative, the moral play, this thesis finds both forms to be founded on an adversarial view of the world (Chapter One). The nature of the adversary is variable, and that variation is, in turn, revealing about the plays'...

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Main Author: Barker, Jill
Published: University of Warwick 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316522