Morality-play
noun
1.
an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
noun
1.
a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices
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