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morality play  nounA kind of allegorical drama having personified abstract qualities as the main characters and presenting a lesson about good conduct and character, popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries.As we approach the end of scene three of the morality play, two heroic character types have emerged: the victim and the judge....- Instead, we are given a medieval morality play where each character is a virtue or vice and stays that way throughout.
- One deliberate omission involves the vestiges of the medieval morality play that remained in Marlowe's 16 th-century retelling.
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