Moralities
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(pl.) of Morality
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a term used for the theatrical representations made by the monks in the Middle Ages, designed to exhibit virtue and vice, so as to make the former look desirable, the latter detestable. This word is classed with two others of similar meaning-miracles and mysteries. (See Mysteries).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
Didactic dramas, following in order of time the miracle plays and mysteries, in which the places of saints and biblical personages in them were taken by characters representing different virtues and vices, and the story was of an allegorical nature; were the immediate precursors of the secular drama.
