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Moralities

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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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.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Moralities'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​m/moralities.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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