page_title: The World and the Child
hierarchical_section_title: The World and the Child
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece to Wynkyn de Worde's 1522 edition of the morality play Mundus et Infans
context_page_description: The World and the Child 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Frontispiece to the 1522 edition
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