The Summoning of Everyman

Outline

The Summoning of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), generally referred to easily as Everyman, is a late 15th-century English morality play. Like John Bunyan's innovative Pilgrim's Progress,

Everyman examines the question of Christian salvation by use of allegorical individual features, and what Man should do to attain it. The premise is that the good and bad exploits of one's life will be tallied by God after death, as in a ledger book.

The play is the allegorical accounting of the life of Everyman, who represents all mankind. In the course of the activity, Everyman tries to convince other ...