Skelton's Magnyficance and the Cardinal Virtue Tradition

This skillfully set forth argument convincingly demonstrates that Skelton's morality Magnyfycence, one of the most important survivals of early English drams, has until now been consistently misread and that its theme and its structure are not organically unreconciled, as historians and critics have supposed.

Originally published in 1965.

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