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cr56n01209d	Ineke Murakami	'Public, Scurrilous and Profane': Transformations in Moral Drama and Political Economy, 1465-1599	2006		.txt	text/plain	338	10	30	Challenging long held critical assumptions about the 'morality play's' 'tedious' rehashing of conservative religious doctrine, I argue that moral drama is an intensely political form from its inception, and that playwrights from the late fifteenth century to the height of Elizabethan playing use literary and performance conventions to both veil and articulate inflammatory perspectives on social justice, labor, and commercialism. By closely reading literary and performance conventions, I reveal that the difference between early and late moral drama is best grasped not as the break typically depicted in periodizing accounts but as a proliferation of the spirit of innovation intrinsic to moral drama.	cache/cr56n01209d.txt	txt/cr56n01209d.txt