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for my Morality Plays grad class, agree with her on almost everything, and looking forward to an awesome class discussion with this as the basis !!! It was clear, easy, and fun to read, and the conclusion that brought Inside Out into conversation with morality plays Fully made me cry.


Our professor has been asking us to think about morality plays dynamically and personally instead of abstractly and statically, and reading this made an excellent argument for why morality plays can and should be considered that way.


The only nagging thing keeping it from beingwas that it felt like she hammered home and reworded her centeal thesis so many times esp.
in the intro that it got pretty repetitive and grating, But that's maybe more a personal thing, In Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the

self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture.
The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its primary subjects.


The morality play is allegorical drama, a "theater of the word," that follows a penitential progression in which an everyman figure falls into sin and is eventually redeemed through penitential ritual.
Written during an era of reform when the ritual life of the medieval Church was under scrutiny, the morality plays as a whole insist upon a self that is first and foremost performedconstructed, articulated, and known through ritual and other communal performances that were interwoven into the fabric of medieval life.


This fascinating look at the genre of the morality play will be of keen interest to scholars of medieval drama and to those interested in late medieval culture, sacramentalism, penance and confession, the history of the self, and theater and performance.
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