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Everyman's Library Paperbacks (1993), Paperback, 288 pages
Description
The most comprehensive paperback edition of EVERYMAN available, with introduction and extensive notes. Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew, and EVERYMAN is perhaps the best known morality play of them all. This edition also includes a representative selection of fourteen other important Miracle Plays.
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LibraryThing member SheWoreRedShoes
Who knew medieval English drama was such fun to read? I didn't, until I had to buy this delightful paperback book for a graduate seminar a few years back. Honestly, I think about this book more often than I ever imagined I would. I thought about it just the other day when I ran into the woman who
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loved, completely loved, the King Arthur legends: well, I had suggested she watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and while she had been a wee bit hesitant when I explained the siege and catapults, she had agreed to do so. It turned out she loved, completely loved, the quest for the grail and we laughed heartily about the galloping and the indestructible Black Knight. This wonderful cycle of old plays (6-7 centuries ago. . .) is rendered in Modern English, but for non-specialists like me, that fact alone allows me to enjoy these dramas from a different place and time, and to marvel at the common threads that remain. Show Less
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Original publication date
late 15th-century (composition of "Everyman")
1956
Physical description
288 p.; 7.6 inches
ISBN
046087280X / 9780460872805
Local notes
The Creation, and the Fall of Lucifer. The Creation of Adam and Eve. The Fall of Man. Cain and Abel. Noah's Flood. Abraham and Isaac. The Annunciation. The Wakefield Second Shepherd's Pageant. The Wakefield Pageant of Herod the Great. The Woman Taken in Adultery. The Crucifixion. The Harrowing of Hell. The Resurrection. The Judgment. [The Somonyng of Everyman] = The Moral Play of Everyman
Other editions
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays by A. C. Cawley (Paperback)