The Summoning of Everyman

Alternative title(s): Everyman
Author(s): anon.
Note: A translation from a Dutch original entitled Elckerlijc (‘Everybody’) (Bruster and Rasmussen, p. 42).
Date of composition:
  • 1496 -1518 (approx.)
Date of first performance: 1519 approx.
Date of first publication: 1518-1519 ? approx.
Genre (Annals): Morality

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 2018 modern edition by Jesús Tronch Pérez
  • [1518-19?] quarto Pynson, Richard single-play print
      ESTC: S114635 10604 4 4a
      EEBO-TCP: Bodleian Library - EEBO record
      Observations: Q1.
      Date by Bruster and Rasmussen. [ca. 1515] (ESTC).
      It survives in two fragments: four leaves comprising signature C, and two leaves comprising signatures B3-4 (Bruster and Rasmussen, 76)
  • [1526-28?] quarto Pynson, Richard single-play print
      ESTC: S4670 10604.5 5 4b
      EEBO-TCP: British Library - EEBO record
      Observations: Q2. Date by Bruster and Rasmussen. ca. 1526 (ESTC). [1526-28?] (DEEP). It lacks signature A.
  • [1521-8?] quarto Skot, John Printed title: Here begynneth a treatyse how ye hye fader of heuen sendeth dethe to somon euery creature to come and gyue a counte of theyr lyues in this worlde and is in maner of a morall playe. single-play print
      ESTC: S105555 10606 6 4c
      EEBO-TCP: Huntington Library - EEBO record
      Observations: Q3. Date by Bruster and Rasmussen. [1528?] (ESTC). [1529] (DEEP).
      University of Virginia HTML transcript.
  • [1528-31?] quarto Skot, John Printed title: Here begynneth a treatyse how the hye fader of heuen sendeth dethe to somon euery creature to come and gyue a counte of theyr lyues in this worlde and is in maner of a morall playe. single-play print
      ESTC: S114637 10606.5 7 4d
      EEBO-TCP: A00471 - British Library - EEBO record TCP HTML
      Observations: Q4. Date by Bruster and Rasmussen. 1535? (ESTC). [1534?] (DEEP).
      Dutch Elckerlijc and Q4 HTML parallel-text edition, TEAMS Middle English Text series (University of Rochester)

  • STC/WING:  STC  (Q1); STC 10604.5 (Q2); STC 10606 (Q3); STC 10606.5 (Q4)
  • ESTC:
  • DEEP: 4 (Q1); 5 (Q2); 6 (Q3) ; 7 (Q4)
  • Greg: 4a (Q1); 4b (Q2); 4c (Q3) ; 4d (Q4) 

Early Performances

Modern Productions

(Selection)

  • Poel, William, dir. Charterhouse, London. 1901.

Modern editions

  • Bruster, Douglas; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. “Everyman” and “Mankind”. London: Methuen Drama A & C Black, 2009. Arden Early Modern Drama.
  • Davidson, Clifford; Walsh, Martin W.; Broos, Ton J., ed. 'Everyman' and Its Dutch Original, 'Elckerlijc'. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications (University of Rochester), 2007. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series.
  • Walker, Greg, ed. Medieval Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 281-297.
  • Halsall, Paul, ed. Everyman. In: Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University, 1998.
  • Coldeway, John C., ed. Early English Drama: An Anthology. London and New York: Garland Pub, 1993.
  • Lester, G. A., ed. Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Mankind, Everyman, Mundus et Infans. London: A & C Black, 1981. New Mermaids.
  • Cooper, Geoffrey; Wortham, Christopher, ed. The Summoning of Everyman. Nedlands, W. A.1980.
  • Bevington, David, ed. Medieval Drama. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
  • Cawley, Arthur C., ed. Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays. New York: Birmingham-Southern Coll, 1959.
  • Adams, Joseph Quincy, ed. Chief Pre-Shakespearean Dramas.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Supposes, pp. 536-67.

Select Bibliography: Translations

  • FR:
    • {Falta autor capítulo libro}. "Everyman. L'homme face á  la mort". Tra. Laroque, François. Ed. Cottegnies, Line; François Laroque; Maguin, Jean-Marie. Théâtre élisabéthain. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. Vol. 1.
  • IT:
    • {Falta autor capítulo libro}. "La chiamata di ogn’omo". Tra. Foligno, Cesare. Ed. Obertello, Alfredo. Teatro inglese: I- dalle origini a Shakespeare. Parma: Nuova Accademia editrice, 1961, p. 63-89. Vol. 1.
  • DE:
    • {Falta autor libro}. Everyman / Jedermann. Tra. Wiemken, Helmut. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1970.

Select Bibliography: Criticism

  • Hillman, Richard. "'Everyman' and the Energies of Stasis". Florilegium: Papers on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 2016, 7, p. 131-149.
  • Im, Yeeyon. "The 'Scourge of Penance' and a 'Garment of Sorrow': Catholic Reforms and the Spectacle of the Passion in 'Everyman'". Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. 2016, vol. 2, 24, p. 131-149.
  • Bourgne, Florence. "Staging 'Everyman'. A 'Dance of Life,' Or of the Use of Medieval Drama to Re-Energize our Contemporary Stage". Etudes Anglaises: Revue Du Monde Anglophone. 2013, vol. 3, 66, p. 388-401.
  • Hadfield, Andrew. "The Summoning of Everyman". Ed. edited by Betteridge, Thomas and Greg Walker. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 9-1083.
  • McGerr, Rosemarie. "Comparing Spiritual and Material Goods: Poverty and Prosperity in 'The Pilgrimage of the Soul' and 'Everyman'". Ed. Kosso, Cynthia and Anne Scott. Poverty and Prosperity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Brepols, 2012, p. 179-195.
  • Steenbrugge, Charlotte. "Books of Accounts in 'Everyman' and Elckerlijc". Medieval English Theatre. 2011, 33, p. 19-44.
  • Stévanovich, Colette. "La Structure d''Everyman'". Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies. 2011, 29, p. 129-141.
  • Yvernault, Martine. "La Guérison Dans 'Everyman'". Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies. 2011, 29, p. 143-155.
  • Bloemendal, Jan. "Transfer and Integration of Latin and Vernacular Drama in the Early Modern Period: The Case of 'Everyman', 'Elckerlijc', 'Homulus' and 'Hecastus'". Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift Für Literaturwissenschaft. 2009, vol. 2, 44, p. 274-288.
  • Freeman, Arthur. "'Everyman' and Others, Part I: Some Fragments of Early English Printing, and their Preservers". Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. 2008, vol. 3, 9, p. 267-305.
  • Freeman, Arthur. "'Everyman' and Others, Part II: The Bandinel Fragments". Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. 2008, vol. 4, 9, p. 397-427.
  • Ladd, Roger A. "'My Condicion is Mannes Soule to Kill' - Everyman's Mercantile Salvation". Comparative Drama. 2007, vol. 1, 41, p. 57-78.
  • McKinnell, John. "How might 'Everyman' have been Performed?". Ed. Moskowich-Spiegel, Isabel and Begoña Crespo-García. Bells Chiming from the Past: Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Rodopi, 2007, p. 119-138.
  • Paulson, Julie. "Death's Arrival and Everyman's Separation". Theatre Survey: The Journal of the American Society for Theatre Research. 2007, vol. 1, 48, p. 121-141.
  • Harper, Elizabeth and Britt Mize. "Material Economy, Spiritual Economy, and Social Critique in 'Everyman'". Comparative Drama. 2006, vol. 3, 40, p. 263-311.
  • Godfrey, Bob. "'Everyman' (Re)Considered". European Medieval Drama. 2000, 4, p. 155-168.
  • Mills, David. "The Theaters of 'Everyman'". Ed. Alford, John A.. From Page to Performance: Essays in Early English Drama. {Falta nombre ciudad}: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1995, p. 127-149.
  • Vanhoutte, Jacqueline. "When 'Elckerlijc' Becomes 'Everyman': Translating Dutch to English, Performance to Print". Studies in the Humanities. 1995, vol. 1-2, 22, p. 100-116.
  • Tanner, Ron. "Humor in 'Everyman' and the Middle English Morality Play". Philological Quarterly. 1991, vol. 2, 70, p. 149-161.
  • Cunningham, John. "Comedic and Liturgical Restoration in 'Everyman'". Ed. Davidson, Clifford and John H. Stroupe. Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays: Second Series. {Falta nombre ciudad}: AMS, 1990, p. 368-380.
  • Strenger, Elisabeth Maria. "The 'Everyman' Morality Plays of Reformation Germany". Dissertation Abstracts International. 1989, , .
  • Best, Thomas W. "'Everyman' and Protestantism in the Netherlands and Germany". Daphnis: Zeitschrift Fur Mittlere Deutsche Literatur. 1987, vol. 1-2, 16, p. 13-32.
  • Garner,Stanton B., Jr. "Theatricality in 'Mankind' and 'Everyman'". Studies in Philology. 1987, vol. 3, 84, p. 272-285.
  • Munson, William. "Knowing and Doing in 'Everyman'". The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism. 1985, vol. 3, 19, p. 252-271.
  • Spinrad, Phoebe S. "The Last Temptation of 'Everyman'". Philological Quarterly. 1985, vol. 2, 64, p. 185-194.
  • Strietman, Elsa. "The Middle Dutch Elckerlijc and the English 'Everyman'". Medium Ævum. 1983, vol. 1, 52, p. 111-114.
  • Bacquet, Paul. "'Everyman' et l'orthodoxie catholique médiévale". Etudes Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis. 1982, vol. 3, 35, p. 296-310.
  • Van Dyke, Carolynn. "The Intangible and its Image: Allegorical Discourse and the Cast of 'Everyman'". Ed. Carruthers, Mary J. and Elizabeth D. Kirk. Acts of Interpretation: The Text in its Contexts, 700-1600: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature in Honor of E. Talbot Donaldson. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Pilgrim, 1982, p. 311-324.
  • Worthan, C. J.. "‘Everyman’ and the Reformation". Parergon. 1981, 29, p. 23-31.
  • Wortham, C. J. "'Everyman' and the Reformation". Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1981, 29, p. 23-31.
  • Kolve, V. A. "'Everyman' and the Parable of the Talents". Ed. Sticca, Sandro. The Medieval Drama. Papers of the Third Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. {Falta nombre ciudad}: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1979, p. 69-98.
  • Meier, Hans H. "Middle English Styles in Translation: A Note on 'Everyman' and Caxton's 'Reynard'". Ed. Alblas, Jacques B. H., Richard Todd and August J. Fry. From Caxton to Beckett: Essays Presented to W.H. Toppen on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Rodopi, 1979, p. 13-30.
  • Frost, Cheryl. "'Everyman' in Performance". LiNQ: (Literature in North Queensland). 1978, vol. 1, 6, p. 39-48.
  • Potter, Robert. The English Morality Play: Origins, History, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition. London: Routledge, 1975.
  • Schreiber, Earl G. "'Everyman' in America". Comparative Drama. 1975, 9, p. 99-115.
  • Stevens, Martin. "The Reshaping of 'Everyman': Hofmannsthal at Salzburg". Germanic Review. 1973, 48, p. 117-131.
  • Moran, Dennis V. "The Life of Everyman". Neophilologus. 1972, 56, p. 324-330.
  • Conley, John. "The Doctrine of Friendship in 'Everyman'". Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. 1969, vol. 3, 44, p. 374-382.
  • Vos, R. "'Elckerlijc' - 'Everyman' - 'Homulus' - 'Der Sunden Loin Ist Der Toid'". Tijdschrift Voor Nederlandse Taal- En Letterkunde. 1966, 82, p. 129-143.
  • Van Laan, Thomas,F. "'Everyman': A Structural Analysis". PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1963, vol. 5, 78, p. 465-475.
  • Adolf, Helen. "From 'Everyman' and 'Elckerlijc' to Hofmannsthal and Kafka". Comparative Literature. 1957, vol. 3, 9, p. 204-214.
  • Ryan, Lawrence V. "Doctrine and Dramatic Structure in 'Everyman'". Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. 1957, vol. 4, 32, p. 722-735.
  • Wood, Francis A. ""¡Elckerlijc'-'Everyman': The Question of Priority". Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature. 1910, vol. 2, 8, p. 279-302.

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