Even the spiritually dormant will be uplifted by this collection of 15th-century biblical pageants. Mostly culled from the dramatic cycles of Chester, York, and Towneley, the pageants have been modernized for easy reading.

          Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can’t take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads "cramp in my toe"), possessions ("I’ll follow no man in such voyages"), and finally falls back on moral and religious values.

CONTENTS:
Preface
Introduction
THE CREATION, AND THE FALL OF LUCIFER
THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE
THE FALL OF MAN
CAIN AND ABEL
NOAH’S FLOOD
ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
THE ANNUNCIATION
THE SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PAGEANT
HEROD THE GREAT
THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY
THE CRUCIFIXION
THE HARROWING OF HELL
THE RESURRECTION
THE JUDGEMENT
EVERYMAN
THE DEATH OF PILATE