In a Manner Morall Playe: Social Ideologies in English Moralities and Interludes (1350-1517) (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature)

About the Author The Author: Liliana Sikorska, professor of English literature and head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, the author of An Outline History of English Literature (1996), Voices against Silence: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (1996) and numerous articles on medieval literature, primarily on drama and medieval mystical culture; visiting scholar at the University of Florida (Gainesville), University of California at Los Angeles, Brown University (Providence) and the American University (Washington, DC). Product Description This book investigates and interprets various social ideologies in the moralities and interludes, dramatic texts of the late medieval period. Most of the selected plays have not been previously analyzed from the perspective of the linguistic and ideological content. Seen within the larger cultural context, mainly compared with other non-dramatic texts of the period, these texts represent rich sources of those social ideologies whose aim was to create principled individuals and a morally sound, well-functioning society.