This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader understand
both the vernacular of medieval times and the plays' biblical references. The messenger? Death. The message? God
has summoned you to stand before Him and give a reckoning of your life. What do you do? The protagonist of this
play, the shocked and distraught Everyman, faces this exact issue. But he is granted a day's grace to gather together
anyone who will travel with him and help him at his judgment. As this moral allegory unfolds, however, poor Everyman
learns that neither possessions, nor accomplishments, nor character traits will follow him to the grave. He must
face his reckoning alone... Perhaps because Everyman's problem is our problem, this play, one of the earliest extant
dramas in English, still provokes thought and discussion nearly 700 years after it was written.