Sentence examples for didactic morality from inspiring English sources

In Elizabethan London, dramatists wrote in an extraordinary range of dramatic genres, from native comedy and farce to Senecan tragedy, from didactic morality plays to popular chronicle plays and tragicomedies, all before the advent of Shakespeare.

Mr. Young and Mr. Seaton, who wrote the script together, produce dialogue that sounds spontaneous and real, and the actors, even as they are confined by what is in essence a didactic morality play, perform with humanity and conviction. A. O. SCOTT.

So the two dropped out in 1995 and were cast in producer Michael Matthews' traveling gospel shows "Mama I'm Sorry" and "Sneaky". Fairly didactic morality plays that use humor and music as theological tools of persuasion, Matthews' gospel shows enabled the Atkins sisters to hone their performance skills.

Novels are not expected to be didactic, like tracts or morality plays; nevertheless, in varying degrees of implicitness, even the "purest" works of fictional art convey a philosophy of life.

The long poem, "Elsewhere", which ends the book, infuses the stiff didactic form of a medieval morality play with thrilling moral ambivalence.

But the drama may also serve a more directly didactic purpose, as did the morality plays of the later Middle Ages, some 19th-century melodramas, and the 20th-century discussion plays of George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.

The societies frequently presented plays in triple bills: first a sotie, a slight, sometimes satiric, sketch; next a moralité (morality play), a didactic and often allegorical piece; and finally a farce.

This strain is distinct enough from the accounts of morality in the more didactic dialogues that it has been called Socratic, as opposed to Platonic, and associated with the historical personage's own views.

If the theme weren't so delicately handled, the film's ideas about morality and desire might come across as a didactic lecture on tolerance and forgiveness.

Even the most progressive projects, like socio-political, didactic work, are about inclusion or democratic ideals and are essentially morality plays".

It is harder to appreciate the cloying morality tales of her Cheap Repository Tracts or her didactic novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife, but one cannot deny their huge success in terms of simple circulation.