Everyman

Everyman

Author: Anonymous

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-27

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781420978001

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Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, "Everyman" is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. "Everyman" is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of mankind. God, frustrated with the wicked and greedy, sends Death to Everyman and summons him to account for his misdeeds and sins. It was believed that God tallied all of one's good and evil deeds in life and then one must provide an accounting before God upon one's death. During Everyman's pilgrimage to God, he meets many characters, such as Fellowship, Good Deeds, and Knowledge. Everyman asks them all to join him in his journey so that he may improve his reckoning before God. In the end, it is only Good Deeds that stays with him before God and helps Everyman find salvation and eternal life. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.


Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

Author: A C Cawley

Publisher: Everyman Paperbacks

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780804855402

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God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow no man in such voyages'), and finally falls back on moral and religious values. This is the most comprehensive paperback edition available and includes an introduction and extensive notes.


Three Late Medieval Morality Plays

Three Late Medieval Morality Plays

Author: Godfrey Allen Lester

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9780393900545

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'New Mermaids' are modernized and fully annotated versions of classic English plays. Each volume includes the playtext in modern English spelling, textual notes and a full introduction.


Morality Play

Morality Play

Author: Barry Unsworth

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0525434097

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A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.


Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi

Author: Terrence McNally

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822216964

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THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t


Everyman In Plain and Simple English

Everyman In Plain and Simple English

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1629174173

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When it comes to Christian morality tales, most people think of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Before Pilgrim's Progress, there was The Summoning of Everyman (more commonly known as Everyman); much like Bunyan's classic work, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of salvation and how man can receive it. The text is present with both the original translation and a modern translation. Please note, this story is also included in the collection “Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays In Plain and Simple English.”


Medieval Writers and Their Work

Medieval Writers and Their Work

Author: J. A. Burrow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-02-07

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0199532044

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A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature.


Medieval Drama

Medieval Drama

Author: Christine Richardson

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 1991-01-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333454774

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A study of medieval drama, divided into two parts: part I, Mystery Plays, is the work of Christine Richardson and part II, Moralities and Interludes, is the work of Jackie Johnston. The general introduction was written jointly.