La structure d’Everyman

In the English Morality play Everyman, translated from the Dutch Elckerlijk, the protagonist is repeatedly affected by desertion (after having been abandoned by his friends and kinfolks, his own qualities eventually fail him). This repetitive motif has often been considered a flaw in the design. Con...

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Main Author: Colette Stévanovitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2011-09-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/757
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description In the English Morality play Everyman, translated from the Dutch Elckerlijk, the protagonist is repeatedly affected by desertion (after having been abandoned by his friends and kinfolks, his own qualities eventually fail him). This repetitive motif has often been considered a flaw in the design. Contrary to that opinion, the author holds that repetition is a key element in the structure of a play constructed as a series of embedded frames.
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envelope pattern
moralité
littérature anglaise
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