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Greetings! I am a third-year grad student at Penn working with English morality plays from _The Pride of Life_ to Udall's _Respublica_ (for a summer independent reading course). In a review of scholarship on the genre published in 1991, David Bevington has wondered aloud (and I apologize for not having the exact reference at hand) why contemporary theoretical and critical approaches such as Marxism, cultural materialism, gender studies/feminism, etc., have yet to be applied (in significant number) to the moralities. One of my goals in this course is to work toward such applications (with conferences and publication off in the misty--and starry-eyed--future); a brief search of the MLA CD-ROM for 1981-1993 has confirmed Bevington's observation. Is anyone on either of these lists (this message is cross-posted to REED-L and PERFORM) currently engaged in such work? Can anyone direct me to published instances of such work? Right now I feel like I am having to start from scratch! Considering all the exciting work currently treating the cycle plays, surely the moralities have not been left out. Thank you all in advance for any assistance you can offer. Rob Barrett -- Robert W. Barrett, Jr. [log in to unmask] Department of English University of Pennsylvania