Shakspere's [sic] Predecessors in the English Drama
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Good Deeds alone has no horror of the grave, but descends with him to abide God's judgment. The piece ends with an Angel's song, welcoming the soul of Everyman, which has been parted from the body and made fit for heaven. The Moral Play of ' Everyman- ' has an interesting parallel in William Bullein's ' Dialogue both pleasant and pitiful, wherein is a goodly Regiment against the Fever Pestilence.' This tract, printed in 1564, and again in 1573, illustrates the influence which the Drama at that ...early period exercised over style. It is conceived in the manner of the Moralities, and its descriptive passages enable us to understand how they BULLEIN'S 'DIALOGUE: jyi affected the imaginations of their audience. The dia- logue introduces a citizen, with his wife and serving- man, flying from London during a visitation of the plague. Death meets them on their journey. The wife deserts her husband, ' for poverty and death will part good fellowship.' The servant runs away, and the citizen is left alone to parley with the awful appa- rition.
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