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

Contrasting Notions of Piety in The Wakefield Mystery Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Le Morte D'Arthur The ascetic way of life that Launcelot and his knights receive after their change is one that Margery Kempe may endorse of - doing atonement, singing mass, fasting, and staying abstinent. (MdA, 525) But Launcelot's difference in heart isn't roused by the feelings that move Kempe, nor is his disposition 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 inside and out dangers. He appears to his adherents in dreams, as he does in Kempe, however never as a kindhearted or ameliorating nearness. Kempe gets her lone solace in life through God's steady consolations of her sacredness 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 in the wake of voyaging party. The dread of being comparably rebuffed keeps other Wakefield characters in line. Noah starts his play with a discourse specifying the mix-ups of the individuals who have enraged the Lord: First on Earth and afterward in hellfire . . . in any case, to those no mischief came to pass for/who confided in his fact. And God reacts: Retaliation I will take,/On earth for the wellbeing of sin,/My dreariness accordingly 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.