LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
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Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
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Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
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Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mystery Plays rely on biblical topics and stories, while the Morality Play does not rely on, or even desire, a specific background story found in the Bible or elsewhere. The Morality Play is an allegory, focusing in on teaching a moral and ethical message to its readers.
Detailed explanation-2: -English mystery plays A collection is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, the Ludus Coventriae, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Morality plays were popular in 15th-and 16th-century Europe. They used allegorical stories to teach a moral message, underpinned by Christian teachings. The characters personified abstract qualities of goodness and evil, virtue and vice, which engaged in a battle to win the soul of the ‘mankind’ figure.
Detailed explanation-4: -The mystery plays and morality plays of the 15th and 16th centuries were very different from modern drama.