The World and the Child (Latin: Mundus et Infans) is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem The Mirror of the Periods of Man’s Life from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters. It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1.
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Age, Perseverance, Wanton, Conscience, Folly, Infans the child, Lust and Liking, Manhood, Mundus the world
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