The Digby Mary Magdalene

Like most morality plays, The Digby Mary Magdalene, uses allegorical exemplum form to relate moral material to the audience. The usual plot of morality plays is an allegorical challenge for the spiritual good of the mankind figure. Susan Haskins, in her book Mary Magdalene, Myth and Metaphor, states that the medieval period saw Mary Magdalene as a “metaphorical Everywoman” (Pg. 134). The play dramatizes the life of Mary Magdalene as it is told in The Golden …

…the traditional roles permitted to women in society. In addition to being a role model for women and particularly for women in the religious sector notoriously dominated by men since antiquity, the New Testament portrays her as a disciple in the truest, literal sense of the word. The Greek term disciple is defined as “one who is learning” (Thompson, Pg.126). Mary Magdalene was a woman, and a woman she provides inspiration to other women today.