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.