Medievalists.net » Mankind http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Use of the Rhetorical Exordium in Middle English Drama http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/the-use-of-the-rhetorical-exordium-in-middle-english-drama/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/the-use-of-the-rhetorical-exordium-in-middle-english-drama/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:10:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33895 In this paper I wish to single out one group of Middle English writings, the mediaeval drama, to examine more closely the interesting ap­plications of the doctrine as exhibited in the "banns" of the miracle plays and of certain moralities, and in the traditional prologues, but es­ pecially in the more "organic" solutions arrived at by the authors of Man­ kind and Everyman.

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