Everyman, with Other Interludes and Miracle Plays
By Anonymous
Cover: Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), engraving by Albrecht D�rer (1471-1528) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1528)
The morality play Everyman, in which Death summons an ordinary man to his reckoning and all his friends and goods fall away except Good Deeds, stands first in a collection of English religious plays. The rest include the Chester Deluge and Abraham and Isaac, the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play and Harrowing of Hell, and John Bale's God's Promises.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Everyman
- 2: The Chester Pageant of the Water-Leaders and Drawers of the Dee Concerning Noah's Deluge
- 3: The Chester Pageant of the Barbers and Wax-Chandlers Representing Abraham, Melchisedec, and Isaac
- 4: The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play
- 5: The Coventry Nativity Play of the Company of Shearmen and Tailors
- 6: The Wakefield Miracle-Play of the Crucifixion
- 7: The Cornish Mystery-Play of the Three Maries
- 8: The Cornish Mystery-Play of Mary Magdalene
- 9: The Wakefield Pageant of the Harrowing of Hell
- 10: The Interlude of "God's Promises"