Bookbot

New Mermaids: Three Late Medieval Morality Plays

Mankind, Everyman, Mundus Et Infans

Parametre

  • 157 stránok
  • 6 hodin čítania

Viac o knihe

Morality plays were the main form of theatre in England between about 1400 and 1600. They usually portrayed a representative Christian figure locked in spiritual conflict. They have recently been revived as early examples of living theatre. The three plays offered here are typical stories of sin and repentance. The surprisingly racy Mankind shows an honest farmer first resisting then giving way to, and finally being redeemed from, the guileful temptations of the devil. The bleaker Everyman focusus on the struggle to die a holy death, while Mundus et Infans tells the life story of an arrogant bully, led astray by the personification of Folly, but repenting in old age.

Nákup knihy

New Mermaids: Three Late Medieval Morality Plays, G. A. Lester

Jazyk
Rok vydania
1981
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(mäkká),
Stav knihy
Dobrá
Cena
12,49 €

Platobné metódy

Nikto zatiaľ neohodnotil.Ohodnotiť

Titul
New Mermaids: Three Late Medieval Morality Plays
Podtitul
Mankind, Everyman, Mundus Et Infans
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
W.W. Norton
Rok vydania
1981
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
157
ISBN10
0510335055
ISBN13
9780510335052
Série
Anotácia
Morality plays were the main form of theatre in England between about 1400 and 1600. They usually portrayed a representative Christian figure locked in spiritual conflict. They have recently been revived as early examples of living theatre. The three plays offered here are typical stories of sin and repentance. The surprisingly racy Mankind shows an honest farmer first resisting then giving way to, and finally being redeemed from, the guileful temptations of the devil. The bleaker Everyman focusus on the struggle to die a holy death, while Mundus et Infans tells the life story of an arrogant bully, led astray by the personification of Folly, but repenting in old age.