The Seven Deadly Sins (play) The Seven Deadly Sins (play) The Seven Deadly Sins was a two-part play written c. 1585, attributed to Richard Tarlton, and most likely premiered by his company, Queen Elizabeth's Men. The play drew upon the medieval tradition of the morality play; though it was very popular in its time, no copy of either part has survived. The play is significant, however, because the "plot" of "Part 2" still exists; it was discovered in the cover of a 17th-century manuscript play, "The Tell Tale", in a collection at Dulwich College. Originally assumed to be part of Edward Alleyn's papers, subsequent investigation
Seven deadly sins sins such as restlessness and instability. Dante refined this definition further, describing acedia as the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul"; to him it was the "middle sin", the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. Some scholars have said that the ultimate form of acedia was despair which leads to suicide. Acedia is currently defined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as spiritual sloth, which would be believing spiritual tasks to be too difficult. In the fourth century, Christian monks believed acedia was not primarily caused