What are the differences between Miracle play and morality play???
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms: “miracle play, a kind of medieval religious play representing non-scriptural legends of saints or of the Virgin Mary. The term is often confusingly applied also to the mystery plays, which form a distinct body of drama based on biblical stories. Thanks to the book-burning zeal of the English Reformation, no significant miracle plays survive in English, but there is a French cycle of forty Miracles de Notre-Dame probably dating from the 14th century.” “morality play, a kind of religious drama popular in England, Scotland, France, and elsewhere in Europe in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Morality plays are dramatized allegories, in which personified virtues, vices, diseases, and temptations struggle for the soul of Man as he travelsfrom birth to death. They instil a simple message of Christian salvation, but often include comic scenes, as in the lively obscenities of Mankind (c.1465). The earliest surviving example in Engl
