Everyman

Description

Western drama, having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages, reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England’s Middle Ages were performed by lay people — many by trade guilds — unschooled in church Latin, but familiar with the biblical events upon which the dramas were based.

Morality plays provided moral instruction, their principal characters vivid personifications of virtue and vice. This venerable drama is reprinted here along with three other medieval classics: The Second Shepherds’ Play, Noah’s Flood, and Hickscorner.

Reprinted from standard editions.