Virtues Vs Vices: The Morality Play

Episode 57The Morality play is a type of play that for all its similarities and shared heritage with the Corpus Christi cycle plays brought something new to the world of drama and had a profound effect on the future development of theatre.How the Morality Plays are different from Cycle PlaysThe Development of the ideas around the seven vices and virtues and how they developed into personified charactersThe development of education in the Middle Ages and the influence on monastic preachingThe presentation of Morality plays and the move away from the church feast dayExamples of the different sort of Morality plays that we have mention of in the recordsThe five extant Morality PlaysThe developing commercial nature of theatre including the travelling troupe of players and the booth stageFor more details on Rosslyn Chapel see:https://thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com/blog/https://www.rosslynchapel.comSupport the podcast at:www.patreon.com/thoetpwww.ko-fi.com/thoetpwww.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.