Mankind (play) Mankind is an English medieval morality play, written c.1470. The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance. Its author is unknown; the manuscript is signed by a monk named Hyngham, but he was probably only the scribe since some of the textual oddities are believed to derive from his miscopying of parts of the text because he was not familiar with it. In his critical edition of the play published by the Early English Text Society in 1969, Eccles argues for a date between 1465 and 1470. The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance. The audience is instructed in the proper Christian life by watching Mankind's fall and redemption. Mankind enters, and addresses the audience, introducing himself.
New Guise, Nowadays and Nought return to tempt Mankind. The final struggle for Mankind's redemption is with himself. Notes. Video. Ubu Roi ActeI Sc1. Marat/Sade 1/X. Waiting For Godot - Lucky Speech. Marat/Sade 2/X. Beckett speaks, 1987.