The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality

by Brian Murdoch

Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction.

Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come to terms with this. Only his inner resources, in the forms of Good Deeds and Knowledge, ensure that he repents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640141170
• ISBN13: 9781640141179
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"