Interlude of Youth

The Interlude of Youth is an English 16th-century morality play. It is one of the earliest printed morality plays to have survived. Only two or three copies of any edition are known to exist. Waley's edition of the work appeared probably about the year 1554, and has a woodcut on the title-page of two figures, representing Charity and Youth, two of the characters in the interlude. Another edition was printed by William Copland, and has also a woodcut on the title-page, representing Youth between Charity, and another figure which has no name over its head. The colophon is: "Imprinted at London, in Lothbury, over against Sainct Margarytes church, by me, Wyllyam Copland." A fragment of a black-letter copy of the interlude has survived at Lambeth Palace.

Tudor Moralities and Interludes
Interludes
  • The Castle of Perseverance
  • Mankind
  • Everyman
  • The World and the Child
  • Interlude of Youth
  • The Disobedient Child
  • Liberality and Prodigality
  • Horestes
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • The Play of the Weather
Related works
  • Medieval theatre
  • Psychomachia
  • Autos sacramentales
  • Ordo Virtutum
  • Elckerlijc
  • A Satire of the Three Estates
  • A Looking Glass for London
  • Four Plays in One
  • Pathomachia
  • The Sun's Darling
Characters
  • Vice
  • Folly
  • Death
  • Personification

Famous quotes containing the words interlude and/or youth:

    “New York is full of people ... with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that’s not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)

    “Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)