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Everyman: A Modern, Public Domain Translation. Everyman is one the most famous Middle-Age plays. It is a poem, and the main character represents us all. The story is that death comes for Everyman, and at first he tries to avoid it. He even offers death money to delay.
In this version of Everyman, we offer the reader or performer a script in which the language has been slightly modernized, to facilitate comprehension for the reader or the listener.
Everyman. translated by Lindsay Price from Everyman by Anonymous. God is upset with how materialistic Man has become. He tells Death to summon Everyman so that he may make account of the good and evil deeds in his life. Everyman is reluctant to go, seeing as his good deeds are rather slim.
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from the modern English text in The Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook. Everyman was written in the late 1400's. The source for it has not been established. A Flemish work entitled Elckerlijc, with the same story and theme, was written about 1495 by Peter van Diest. Cast of Characters.
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The Somonyng of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play by an anonymous English author, printed circa 1530. It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman).
God has ordered that Everyman must die, but not before he attempts to clear his accounts of earthly vice and sin. This modern translation brings new life to an old text and makes a historically significant piece of drama viable for new audiences.
Oct 10, 2009 · Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Reprint of the morality play first published by John Scott, or Skot, of London, about 1520. The text used is that of Hazlitt's version in Dodsley's "Old plays" published in London in 1874.
