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Morality: When Does it Come into Play?
2023What is morality about? This chapter explores morality by distinguishing between its formal object and its material object. Formally speaking morality concerns (the evaluation of) human (inter)action insofar as it is desired or required. It is distinguished from other normative evaluations by its focus on things that are fundamentally desirable or ...
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2008
Abstract They were long relegated to a particularly dusty corner of early literature, dismissed as didactic and dull—and for using the despised mode of allegory. It is only fairly recently that they have been given sympathetic attention: it is probably significant that, like the mystery plays, the best examples of the type have proved ...
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Abstract They were long relegated to a particularly dusty corner of early literature, dismissed as didactic and dull—and for using the despised mode of allegory. It is only fairly recently that they have been given sympathetic attention: it is probably significant that, like the mystery plays, the best examples of the type have proved ...
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Blackfriars, 1938
A Play whether moral or otherwise is a plot, an action in which one human force is pitted against another to culminate in victory or defeat. It is not a reality of human ambition, joy of suffering, but a figure, a picture, a statement of it, a thing made for presentation by actors to an audience. It is, therefore, conditioned by the language, knowledge
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A Play whether moral or otherwise is a plot, an action in which one human force is pitted against another to culminate in victory or defeat. It is not a reality of human ambition, joy of suffering, but a figure, a picture, a statement of it, a thing made for presentation by actors to an audience. It is, therefore, conditioned by the language, knowledge
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1977
While Mayor Harrison conferred yesterday with Corporation Counsel Sexton as to whether or not the city has power to prohibit ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ from being staged in Chicago, Lady Augusta Gregory sat calmly in her apartments at the Hotel La Salle and upheld the moral status of the production.
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While Mayor Harrison conferred yesterday with Corporation Counsel Sexton as to whether or not the city has power to prohibit ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ from being staged in Chicago, Lady Augusta Gregory sat calmly in her apartments at the Hotel La Salle and upheld the moral status of the production.
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The Community of Morality Plays
Comparative Drama, 1975Plays variously labelled moralities, moralites, histoires, zinnespelen, and abete speien were written and performed in medieval and renaissance England, France, and the Lowlands. When these plays have been considered sufficiently important for critical analysis, they have been studied, with one exception, in restricted groups based upon identities of ...
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, 2021 Suddenly Last Summer As “Morality Play"
Modern Drama, 1965A NUMBER OF CRITICS have already pointed out that the material employed in the dramas of Tennessee Williams is offensive to many otherwise broad-minded people. After all, rape, sexual perversion, and cannibalism are not the most attractive of topics even in our post-Freudian age.
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1977
This chapter continues the analysis of ‘delinquent’ incidents. Again the focus is on process and the development of subjective interpretations on both ‘sides’. Every delinquent act is unique and has to be analysed on its own terms: and an understanding of such acts can only be gained by analysing the interpretations that surround them and giving a ...
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This chapter continues the analysis of ‘delinquent’ incidents. Again the focus is on process and the development of subjective interpretations on both ‘sides’. Every delinquent act is unique and has to be analysed on its own terms: and an understanding of such acts can only be gained by analysing the interpretations that surround them and giving a ...
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