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Moral Play and Counterpublic - Transformations in Moral Drama, 1465-1599 (Paperback)
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Moral Play and Counterpublic - Transformations in Moral Drama, 1465-1599 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular
English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for
disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary,
Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth
century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics,
economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its
inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth
century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a
volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre's
apparently inert conventions-from allegorical characters to the
battle between good and evil for Mankind's soul-veiled critical
explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays
representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from
1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in
the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of
professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play
fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to 'the
peace' of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a
political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite
counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms
of authority.
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