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)

    “In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)