Everyman with Other Interludes Including Eight Miracle Plays

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This anthology collects the anonymous medieval morality play Everyman — the most celebrated surviving example of its genre — alongside a selection of miracle plays from the English cycle tradition. Everyman dramatizes the allegorical journey of a representative human soul summoned by Death, abandoned by Fellowship, Kindred, and Worldly Goods, and ultimately accompanied only by Good Deeds. It has been continuously performed since the medieval period, including a famous 1901 production by Max Reinhardt that helped launch the twentieth century's interest in non-naturalist theater. The miracle plays supplement it with scenes from biblical narrative — the cycles of York, Wakefield, and Chester — that show medieval sacred drama at its most theatrically vital.