The construction of power and pride in the framework of political allegory in the Middle English Pride of Life. (Literature).

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

This paper examines the construction of power and pride in relation to the political allegory in The Pride of Life (c. 1350). The play, although fragmentary, being the earliest existing morality, remains pivotal in our understanding of the dramatic form of morality plays, even though it combines the dramatic potential of both the mystery as well as the morality plays. This morality constructs a character which reveals the subversiveness of medieval thinking; on the one hand, royal power is God given, on the other, one of the most frequently used motifs are related to the idea ...

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