Abstract The human dilemma of making everyday choices between good and evil— obedience or disobedience to God—is poignantly depicted in several medieval Miracle and Morality plays and Early Modern plays, reflecting some of the anxiety induced by the pressure to make such choices by externalising, and thus physically embodying, the alternatives. The effects of these representations and the potential outcome—salvation or damnation—of these decisions are explored in the Catholic Morality play Everyman and its successors, including Johannes Kolross’s Protestant everyman drama, Das Spil von Fünfferlei Betrachtnussen zur Buss. In the early 16th-century Miracle play Mariken van Nieumeghen, Mariken spends seven years with the devil, and in Marlowe’s late 16th-century tragedy Doctor Faustus, the protagonist enters into a contract with him. The article argues that allowing the audience to see and experience abstract concepts at a visceral level makes these concepts part of the very fabric of their lives. As a commemorative lecture, the article also draws on and extends some of the research of the late Margaret Raftery, honouring her contribution to medieval scholarship.

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体现诱惑：中世纪和早期现代戏剧中选择的表现

摘要 人类在善恶之间做出日常选择的困境——顺从或不顺从上帝——在中世纪的几部奇迹与道德戏剧和早期现代戏剧中得到了尖锐的描述，反映了通过外化做出这种选择的压力所引起的一些焦虑，从而在身体上体现了替代方案。这些表现的影响和这些决定的潜在结果——拯救或诅咒——在天主教道德剧《普通人》及其后续作品中进行了探讨，包括约翰内斯·科罗斯的新教普通人剧《Das Spil von Fünfferlei Betrachtnussen zur Buss》。在 16 世纪早期的奇迹剧 Mariken van Nieumeghen 中，Mariken 与魔鬼共度了七年，而在 Marlowe 的 16 世纪晚期悲剧博士 Faustus 中，主角与他签订了契约。文章认为，让观众在内心深处看到和体验抽象概念，使这些概念成为他们生活结构的一部分。作为纪念讲座，本文还借鉴和扩展了已故玛格丽特·拉夫特的一些研究，以表彰她对中世纪学术的贡献。