Episode 39: Dr. Matthew Sergi and the Surprising Truth About Morality Plays

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The phrase "morality play" often comes off as pejorative today; it's a phrase that we use when we want to dismiss something as dull and didactic. But Dr. Matthew Sergi of the University of Toronto begs to differ. He's been studying and, most importantly, staging these works, and he's come to some unexpected conclusions about how these plays function and what performing them today can tell us about our own world.

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