Pre-Reformation versus Post-Reformation The outward purpose of all morality plays is to instruct listeners on the means of receiving redemption: a purpose that some plays adhere to relatively consistently, while others delight so extensively in their vices that broad entertainment establishes itself as an equally dominant raison d'etre. However, morality plays after the Protestant Reformation are of a distinctly different didacticism than the morality plays before the Reformation.
Pre-Reformation versus Post-Reformation The outward purpose of all morality plays is to instruct listeners on the means of receiving redemption a purpose that some plays adhere to relatively consistently while others delight so extensively in their vices that broad entertainment establishes itself as an equally dominant raison d'etre However morality plays after the Protestant Reformation are of a distinctly different didacticism than the morality plays before the Reformation