Take example; all ye that this do hear or see... The Morality Play was popular in England between 1400 and 1600. It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten. Mankind is a plain; honest farming man who struggles against worldly and spiritual temptation. The bawdy humour and violent action in the play serve to make the moral point and instruct by example. Everyman portrays a mans struggles in the face of death to raise himself to a state of grace so that he may experience everlasting life. It is exceptional among the Moralities for this narrow focus on the last phase of life; and conveys its message with awe-inspiring seriousness. Mundus et Infans is more typical of the Morality genre. It shows an arrogant; bullying protagonist led astray by a single evildoer into a life of debauchery; before the inevitable conversion to virtue. In showing the whole of mans life it is the antithesis of Everyman; the action of which seems to take place in a single day.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Well written and very interestingBy Stuart MellishWill Michaels does a great job in bringing the history of St Petersburg to life in this short but engaging book. This is not an all encompassing timeline history of St Petersburg but more like selected important events that flesh out the overall collection of facts and dates of which histories are usually composed. A must read not only for history buffs but anyone with a passing interest in the Sunsine City.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not a normal HistoryBy Thomas S. GarofaloAlthough not a history in Chronicle; Will has found a way to fascinate and amuse the reader as he tells some of the history of St. Petersburg that may be less well know. Overall; a well written book.
