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...musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused people very long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London in Flete Strete by Richarde Pynson prynter to the Kynges moost noble grace" in 1509, but for almost a century before that it had trundled up and down England in creaking "pageant wagons." Entertainments of another sort wandered the countries also-the mummeries perpetrated by troubadours and tattered knaves who sang sweetly in the halls of great peers and bawdily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Everyman | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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