Everyman: a character fit for the next 500 years

Carol Ann Duffy’s reworking of the early-Tudor morality play is just the latest example of a legacy that stretches across more than half a century

You could be forgiven for seeing Everyman, an early-Tudor morality play in which the titular hero is summoned by Death to judgment, as a cultural cul de sac. In fact, it has a remarkably rich legacy, stretching across more than 500 years to Carol Ann Duffy’s reworking that has recently opened at the National Theatre.

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