Genesis myth and the popular seventeenth century literature

Conclusion
The religious literature of Europe of the 17th century, particularly of the United Kingdom is very rich. Its biblical literature, religious impact, theology, and metaphysics is still read in classrooms as well as outside. The history of the English drama which is rich in religious literature takes us back to the century - succeeding the coming of the Normans, the earliest mention of any dramatic representation in this UK referring to a performance of a Latin play in honour of St. Katherine, at Dunstable about 1110. By the time of the Norman Conquest a form of religious drama, which in the first instance had evolved out of the rich symbolic liturgy of the Church, had already established itself in France, and as a matter of course it soon found its way into England.
A later stage in the evolution of the drama is marked by the morality play. This, like the miracle play, was didactic; but its characters, instead of being taken from sacred narrative, or the legends of the saints, were personified abstractions. The rise of this form of drama was very natural at a time when allegorical poetry was immensely popular. All sorts of mental and moral qualities thus appeared embodied in types—Science, Perseverance, Mundus, Free Will, the Five Senses, the Seven Deadly Sins, Good and Bad Angels, Now-a-Days, Young England, Lusty Juventus, Humanum Genus, Everyman. Among such personifications (of which the foregoing are, of course, only examples), there was generally a place for the Devil, who had held a prominent position in the miracle plays. A later introduction of much importance was the so-called Vice, who was some humorous incarnation of evil taken on the comic side, and as such was the recognised funmaker of the piece. He sometimes scored a tremendous popular success by jumping on the Devil's back, sticking thorns into him, belabouring him with a dagger of lath, and making him roar with pain.

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