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''Elckerlijc'' (also known as ''Elckerlyc'') is a morality play from the Low Countries which was written in Dutch somewhere around the year 1470. It was first printed in 1495. The play was extremely successful and may have been the original source for the English play ''Everyman'', as well as many other translations for other countries. The authorship of ''Elckerlijc'' is attributed to Peter van Diest, a medieval writer from the Low Countries. The play won the first prize in the Rederijker contest in Antwerp in 1485. As a morality play, it stresses the didactic message. It uses allegory of the hero as an "everyman" (a typical human person) and is written in moderately elevated Rederijker style. Dutch and English historians argued for decades over whether the English play ''Everyman'' was based on ''Elckerlijc'' (or vice versa). The most convincing evidence that ''Elckerlijc'' was the original was provided by the English historian E.R. Tigg, who showed how many rhymes and literal translations were copied from the Dutch-language play into the English ''Everyman''.〔Meijer, 1971:55, quoting of ''Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy,'' 1939.〕 On the other hand, it is perfectly credible that an English translator should have added a rhyming tag to each of a pair of words that rhyme in Dutch but not in English.〔A. C. Cawley (1989). "Everyman". ''Dictionary of the Middle Ages''. ISBN 0-684-17024-8.〕 The prevalent view is that the Dutch-language version was the original.〔(Geert Warnar, ''Elckerlijc, Toneel, tekst en beeld van ca. 1500 tot nu'' ) 〕 ==Translations and adaptations== * ''Everyman'', in English (sixteenth century). * ''Hecastus'', adaptation in Latin (1536) by Macropedius. * ''Jedermann'' adaptation by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1911). * ''Elckerlyc'', 1975 film directed by Jos Stelling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elckerlijc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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