Description:
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays that mark the turn of the
medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the
individual. Both plays are modernised here with full on-page
commentaries, a detailed, illustrated introduction and all the
scholarly qualities associated with Arden editions
Brief description: ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and the author of The Shakespeare Thefts. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. Since 1999 he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
Review Quotes:
"The two-hander of Everyman and Mankind gives us plays more often considered to be 'medieval' than 'early modern'...a very positive step as it allows us the chance, within the body of a coherent series, to read the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as part of the continuum..." --Shakespeare Bookshop Newsletter (December 2009)
"Fascinating reading" --Times Literary Supplement, June 2010, on the Arden Early Modern Drama series