| 释义 |
morality play
I. noun
: an allegorical play popular especially in the 15th and 16th centuries in which the characters personify moral qualities (as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are specifically taught
II. noun
: something (as a court trial or a political controversy) which involves a direct conflict between right and wrong or good and evil and from which a moral lesson may be drawn |