EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chris Baldick, Morality Play, Psychomachia
9 Feb 2018
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Elizabethan: relating to or characteristic of the life and times of elizabeth i, queen of england and ireland, who reigned from 1558 to 1603. Jacobean: relating to king james i or to the period of his english reign, from 1603 to 1625. Farce: a kind of comedy that inspires hilarity mixed with panic and cruelty in its audience through an increasingly rapid and improbable series of ludicrous confusions, physical disasters, and sexual innuendoes (baldick, oxford concise. Parody: a mocking imitation of the style of a literary work or works, ridiculing the stylistic habits of an author or a school by exaggerated mimicry. Parody is related to burlesque in its application of serious styles to ridiculous subjects. Its importance declined sharply in the 18th century with the appearance of a publishing market (baldick, oxford concise dictionary of literary terms). Morality play: a kind of religious drama popular in england, scotland, france, and elsewhere in.
