Everyman.(Chicago, Illinois)

The Christian Century | February 7, 1996| | Copyright

DURING THE holiday season, Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago offered a welcome antidote to the sentimental, Dickensian fare generally staged at that time of year, and a more fitting choice for the penitential Advent season: a production of the morality play Everyman. In making the choice, Steppenwolf reached into a time with concerns somewhat similar to our own. In the late 14th century, when the English version of Everyman was first presented, the skirmishes of the Hundred Years War were still going on. Moreover, England was beset by a severe economic depression stemming ...

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