Comparing Piety in The Wakefield Mystery Plays, The Book of Margery Kem

Looking at Notions of Piety in The Wakefield Mystery Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Le Morte D'Arthur The devout way of life that Launcelot and his knights receive after their change is one that Margery Kempe may affirm of - doing retribution, singing mass, fasting, and staying abstinent. (MdA, 525) But Launcelot's difference in heart isn't spurred by the feelings that move Kempe, nor is his demeanor towards God equivalent to can be found in The Book of Margery Kempe and The Wakefield Mystery Plays. In the Wakefield plays, God wins devotion through by and large dangers. He appears to his devotees in dreams, as he does in Kempe, however never as a generous or encouraging nearness. Kempe gets her solitary solace in life through God's consistent consolations of her heavenliness even with the judgment of her friends; in the Creation play, it is God who throws out Adam and Eve, similarly as Kempe is thrown out of voyaging party subsequent to voyaging party. The dread of being likewise rebuffed keeps other Wakefield characters in line. Noah starts his play with a discourse enumerating the missteps of the individuals who have maddened the Lord: First on Earth and afterward in damnation . . . in any case, to those no mischief happened to/who confided in his fact. And God reacts: Retaliation I will take,/On earth for the wellbeing of sin,/My dreariness in this way will wake/Both incredible and little. (WP, 91) God guarantees that All will die less and more that so scorned my arrangement. Fa... ...dA, 523) Works Cited and Consulted Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Sanford Meech and Hope and Emily Allen. London: Oxford UP, Early English Text Society 212, 1940; rpt. 1961. Lawton, David. Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in The Book of Margery Kempe. Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra J. McEntire. New York: Garland, 1992. 93-116. Malory, Sir Thomas. Works. Ed. Eugene Vinaver. London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Mann, Jill. The Narrative of Distance, the Distance of Narrative in Malory’s Morte DArthur. The William Matthews Lectures 1991 conveyed at Birkbeck College, London. Rose, Martial, ed. what's more, trans. The Wakefield Mystery Plays. New York: Norton, 1961.