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morality play
noun
- an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
morality play
noun
- a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices
Word History and Origins
Origin of morality play1
Example Sentences
Either way, four complex decades were reduced to a morality play.
This is an ugly story of fragile democracy and brute force, but it is not a simple morality play.
“The McMartin case began as a morality play about the failure to protect children,” he writes.
It ended as a morality play about the failure to protect civil liberties…[and] the complete negation of the evidence of abuse.
This anti-moralistic political drama is a morality play on the value of political thought, and the importance of doing it well.
It is truly the catalyst for the final act of our morality play.
The log line seemed to telegraph a saccharine morality play on the dangers of vices and excess.
Another form of the medieval drama, the Morality Play, had its origin in the 15th century,—or else very late in the 14th.
After the pageant came the May pole dancers and the wandering musicians, the Morality Play and the rustic dances.
It is a curious reproduction, with a slight difference in cast, of the morality play of an earlier time.
Another little drama of Mr. O'Riordan, "Time," is almost a morality play.
In the main, he suggests abstract intellect performing in a morality play, exhibiting no emotion but intellectual pride.
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