Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Compare and contrast the use made of argument and dramatic

irony in some morality plays.

By allegorising the redemption of mankind and the principles of Christian aretaics, morality plays, in the words of Robert Potter, "celebrate the permanent truth of Christianity as a theology, a theory of history, and an explanation of the human condition…

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