Drama as Literature (EL 250)


3 Oct 2005

Anonymous, ''Everyman''

Here shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity, Both Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty, Will fade from thee as flower in May. For ye shall here, how our heavenly king Calleth Everyman to a general reckoning: Give audience, and here what he doth say.

I've posted a slightly annotated, modernized version of Everyman on the course website.

The play "Everyman" (in this form, modernized from the original Middle English) does not present a psychologically realistic character. Everyman is, instead, an abstraction -- that is, an allegorical figure, whose experiences and motives are meant to be as general and universal as possible.

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MT quick post did not work for me again...so visit my site!!!!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DenamarieErcolani/2005/10/everyman.html#more

Posted by: Denamarie at October 1, 2005 5:18 PM

please i want to read the play 'EVERYMAN' by Anonymous please

Posted by: Azome victoria at December 27, 2007 1:33 PM

Truths of life: I think that you are forgetting that friend even the most faithful cannot suicide even for friendship.Plus it was wrong of everyman himself to ask for something that selfish.

Posted by: Bashini at September 27, 2009 5:32 AM
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