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The Castle of Perseverance is a c. 15th-century morality play and the earliest known full-length (3,649 lines) vernacular play in existence. Along with Mankind and Wisdom, The Castle of Perseverance is preserved in the Macro Manuscript (named after its owner Cox Macro) that is now housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library in ...
THE CASTLE OF PERSEVERANCE: FOOTNOTES 1 The four daughters will be clad in mantles, Mercy in white, Righteousness 2 First Standard-bearer Glorious God, in all degrees lord of most might 3 And all the nobles of this realm, and advise them the right (way) 4 And ask generous friendship of you 5 Destroyed is mankind cruelly when he to sin agrees
Learn about the oldest known English morality play, The Castle of Perseverance, from a 15th-century manuscript. See the staging diagram, characters, and performance notes from this medieval drama.
26 de oct. de 2022 · The play deals allegorically with the life of man and his struggle against sin, and the structure is for the most part based on a sequence of temptation, fall and redemption. The play describes the whole ontology of man, opening before his birth and ending after his death and his judgment before the throne of God.
Learn about the history, structure, and sources of the morality play The Castle of Perseverance, one of the five surviving medieval texts in this genre. The web page provides an overview of the play's allegorical characters, themes, and performance context, as well as links to related resources.
This edition is based upon a new transcription of The Castle of Perseverance, now published with a gloss, notes, glossary, and an introduction, to enable classroom study of this classic morality play.
" The Castle of Perseverance " is the oldest of the trio, Mr. A. W. Pollard inclining to the view that, on literary grounds ; it belongs to the period of the ^first and second quarters of the ffteenth century, "not much later than 1425" (E.E.T.S. Extra Series, No. xci.,p. xxiv). As in the case of '" Man
