Further Reading
CRITICISM
Garner, Stanton B. Jr. “Theatricality in Mankind and Everyman.” Studies in Philology 84, no. 3, (summer 1987): 272-85.
Compares Mankind and Everyman based on their performance on stage and their dependence on the performance.
Potter, Robert. “Everyman in the Twentieth Century.” In The English Morality Play: Origins, History and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition, pp. 222-45. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975).
Considers the treatment and reaction to Everyman in the twentieth century by directors, actors, audiences, and critics.
Rendall, Thomas. “The Times of Mercy and Judgment in Mankind, Everyman, and The Castle of Perseverance.” English Studies in Canada 7, no. 3, (fall 1981): 255-69.
Compares three plays and the manner in which they each tried to reach the audiences of their times, based on the beliefs that existed in those times.
Richardson, Christine, and Johnston, Jackie. “Didactic Drama: Everyman and Other Morality Plays.” In Medieval Drama, pp. 97-107. Macmillan Education Ltd., 1991.
Defines the morality play and compares a number of them, including Everyman, in order to demonstrate that they are not all the same.
Schreiber, Earl G. “Everyman in America.” Comparative Drama 9, no. 2, (summer 1975): 99-115.
Discusses the production of the play in America and how it has remained unchanged for the most part.
Speaight, Robert. “Everyman and Euripides.” In William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival, pp. 161-78. Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954).
Examines Poel's interpretation of Everyman with respect to his production of the play.
Tigg, E. R. “Is Elckerlijc prior to Everyman?” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 38, no. 4, (October 1939): 568-96.
Argues that Everyman and Elckerlijc are so similar that whichever was written first had to be known to the author of the latter.
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