Everyman (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Fifield, Merle. The Castle in the Circle, Ball State University Press, 1967.

  Fifield studies the staging of morality plays. He also offers a staging of the play using medieval production information.

• Munson, William. “Knowing and Doing in Everyman” in the Chaucer Review, Vol. 19, no. 3, 1985, pp. 252-71.

  Munson argues that one of Everyman’s primary points is the assertion that struggle is as important to man as knowledge.

• Speaight, Robert. “Everyman and Euripides” in his William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival, Heinemann, 1954.

  Speaight describes Poel’s production of Everyman and discusses his problems with the play’s theology.

• Thomas, Helen S. “The Meaning of the Character Knowledge in Everyman” in the Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. XIV, no. 1, Winter, 1960-61, pp. 3-13.

  Thomas argues that Knowledge is a “wisdom figure whose function it was to counsel Everyman wisely.”

• Van Dyke, Carolyn. “The Intangible and Its Image: Allegorical Discourse and the Cast of Everyman” in Acts of Interpretation, The Texts in Its Contexts 700-1600: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature in Honor of E. Talbot Donaldson, edited by Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, Pilgrim, 1982, pp. 311-24.

  Going against the majority opinion, Van Dyke argues that the characters in Everyman go beyond simple archetypes to create realistic, individual characters.