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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Exploring: Mundus et Infans
Description: Mundus et Infans or, The World and the Child by anonymous (dated somewhere before 1522).Mundus et Infans is a morality play in miniature, like other surviving morality plays, but scaled down to - potentially - only two actors. It follows the shape of the other medieval morality plays we have - Castle of Perseverance et al - in that a man grows up to sin in the world and is guided back to good in old age. There is at least one moment where we slightly overreact to the change in meaning for a word, but it's important to de...