The World and the Child

The World and the Child
Frontispiece to the 1522 edition
Written by	Unknown
Characters	Mundus, the world Infans, the child Wanton Lust and Liking Manhood Conscience Folly Perseverance Age
Date premiered	1508
Original language	English
Genre	Morality play

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.^[1] It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.