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Mankind, Kathleen Ashley, Gerard Necastro
Mankind, Kathleen Ashley, Gerard Necastro
Kathleen M. Ashley
Mankind is without a doubt the most amusing and controversial morality play surviving from fifteenth-century England. As an allegory about the vulnerable situation in which most people find themselves—torn between good judgment and the temptation to misbehave—the play’s moral action is conventional.