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Everyman, A Modern Adaptation (Or, Number's Down), Merrick Robison May 2011

Everyman, A Modern Adaptation (Or, Number's Down), Merrick Robison

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Everyman is the most well known morality play that came out of the turn of the 16th century. Innumerable amounts of people have seen it in performance, both in the 1500s and modern day, since its revivals at the turn of the 20th century. It is a common choice of performance both on the professional and college level, and offers many opportunities for adaptation and modernization. The purpose for the project is to research the production and literary history of Everyman in order to write, produce, direct and perform in a modern adaptation of the morality play so it may …