Editing Morality play (section)

===Arundel's Constitutions===
Scholars have long noted that the medieval morality plays were written after the creation of Arundel's Constitutions in 1407, whereby the Archbishop [[Thomas Arundel]] and his legislation sought to limit the preaching and teaching of religious matters, and outlawed any biblical translations into the vernacular.<ref>Steenbrugge, Charlotte. "Morality Plays and the Aftermath of Arundel's Constitutions." In ''The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance'', ed. Pamela M. King. Routledge, 2016, at 205.</ref> His Constitutions were written in explicit response to the threat of [[Lollardy]]. Since the morality plays do contain aspects of religious doctrine, such as the importance of penance and the salvation of the soul, scholars have questioned how it is that morality plays, in both the play-text and play form, continued to thrive throughout the fifteenth century. While scholars have not arrived at a satisfying conclusion, they nonetheless agree the morality plays were not seriously affected by the Constitutions, which suggests that either Arundel's Constitutions, the divide between Lollardy and orthodoxy, or the role that morality plays themselves played in society, continue to be somewhat misunderstood.