Elckerlyc

Dutch play

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In rederijkerskamer
…finest plays of this period, Elckerlyc, a morality play of c. 1485 attributed to Pieter Doorlant, won a prize at a landjuweel and became well known in England as Everyman. The miracle play Mariken van Nieumeghen (c. 1500) is remarkably modern both in its psychological insight and in its technique.…
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In Dutch literature: Songs, drama, and the rhetoricians
…century; “Mary of Nijmegen”) and Elckerlyc (of about the same date). The first anticipates the Renaissance in its psychology and treatment; the second, entirely medieval in its conception, is the original of the English Everyman. Both were written by members of rederijkerskamers, or chambers of rhetoric, institutions that spread from…
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