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Everyman out: personification drama and the English Reformation
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This thesis is a study of the small-troupe Protestant personification interlude, between the split with the Roman church in the 1530s and the rise of the public playhouses in the 1580s. It is premised on the fact that the everyman, the representative of mankind who had been the defining protagonist of the morality play, suddenly falls away after the Reformation. Scholars have long recognized that the loss of such a mankind-figure happens at some point during the sixteenth century. I argue tha...
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+ Wakelin, D
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- English
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9105-4463
+ van Es, B
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- English
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-5291-7668
+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0505m1554
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Deposit date:
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2026-02-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Jacob Ridley
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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