Patterns of conflict in the English morality plays
The dissertation considers the English morality plays as explorations of inner conflict. The pre-Reformation moralities use personification-allegory as a means of analysing the conflict which takes place within the soul of man between his attachment to this world and his other-worldly aspirations. T...
Main Author: | Belsey, Catherine |
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University of Warwick
1973
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.595007 |
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