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Everyman and Mankind (Arden Early Modern Drama)
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Description for Everyman and Mankind (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Paperback.
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humour. Both texts are modernised here and edited to the highest standards of scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of information and insight associated with all Arden editions. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction argues that the plays signal the birth of ... Read more
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a man battling with temptation and sin, often with great humour. Both texts are modernised here and edited to the highest standards of scholarship, with full on-page commentaries giving the depth of information and insight associated with all Arden editions. The comprehensive, illustrated introduction argues that the plays signal the birth of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904271628
SKU
V9781904271628
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Ref
99-5
About Anon
Professor Douglas Bruster teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Eric Rasmussen is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA.
Reviews for Everyman and Mankind (Arden Early Modern Drama)
'The two-hander of Everyman and Mankind gives us plays more often considered to be 'medieval' than 'early modern'...a very positive step as it allows us the chance, within the body of a coherent series, to read the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as part of the continuum...' Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter (December 2009)