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Crafty Conveyance
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Heavenly Graces
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Humanum Genus
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Light Line
medieval stagecraft
Middle English literature
Moral Plays
morality theatre
Paternoster Play
Rime Royal
secular allegory
Sensual Appetite
Studious Desire
Tavern Scenes
Temptation Stages
Thou Sayst
Wyll Ye
Product details
- ISBN 9781138310704
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon of John Skelton’s work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He demonstrates the text’s significance as the first example of a play by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and literary rather than theological morality play. This edition features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such as the staging, versification, sources and characterisation, followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses.
John Skelton, Robert Lee Ramsay
