Discuss the differences between “miracle plays” and “morality plays” and how they led to Elizabethan drama.

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For centuries the English had adored theatrical pageantry. Miracle plays are nonscriptural dramas based on the legend of a saint or of a miracle performed by a saint or sacred object. In morality plays, which evolved from the miracle plays and were dramatized allegories, abstract virtues and vices or other human qualities appear in human form and either struggle for the human soul or act out some moral truth or lesson. Once religious plays were banned, other forms of performance, such as revels and interludes, developed during the Elizabethan period.