Mankind

Titre:	Mankind
Date:	Fin du XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Moralité
Forme:	914 vers
Contenu:	Moralité anglaise appartenant au recueil dit des Macro Morality Plays
Incipit:	Mercy. The very fownder and begynner of owr fyrst creacyon amonge ws synfull wrechys he oweth to be magnyfyede, þat for owr dysobedyenc he hade non indygnacyon to sende hys own son to be torn and crucyfyede…
Explicit:	… Mankend ys wrechyd, he hath sufficyent prowe. Therefore God grant ȝow all per suam misericordiam þat ye may be pleyferys wyth þe angellys abowe and hawe to ȝour porcyon vitam eternam. Amen! Fynis.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1904, xlii + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1924, xlii + 210 p. [IA]
Mankind. The Macro Plays. No. 1, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1907, vi p. + f. [122-134]. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- New York, AMS Press, 1970
The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. Edited by Mark Eccles, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 262), 1969, lii + 280 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. A facsimile edition with facing transcriptions. edited by David Bevington, New York, Johnson Reprint, 1972.

Traductions modernes

en français:
- Mankind et Everyman, trad. Jean-Paul Débax et André Lascombes, Tours, Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais de Tours (Traductions introuvables), 2012. [www]

Études

Beadle, Richard, « Monk Thomas Hyngham's hand in the Macro manuscript », New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle, éd. Richard Beadle et A. J. Piper, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1995, p. 315-341.
Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 438) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Réimpressions:
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1948
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1954, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1967
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Mineola (NY), Dover Publications, 1996, 2 t. en 1 [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Davidson, Clifford, Visualizing the Moral Life: Medieval Iconography and the Macro Morality Plays, New York, AMS Press (AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, 16), 1989, xi + 169 p. + [16] p. de pl.
Gibson, Gail McMurray, « The Macro manuscripts and the making of the morality play », The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 113:3, 2019, p. 255-295. DOI: 10.1086/704388
Kelley, Michael R., Flamboyant Drama: A Study of "The Castle of Perseverance", "Mankind", and "Wisdom", Carbondale et Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press (Literary Structures), 1979, xiv + 162 p. [IA]