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In spite of the fact that little has been said in either England or America regarding the Everyman-Elckerlijc question, it has been a topic of lively discussion in Belgium and the Netherlands for some seventy years. Having become interested in the subject, I have therefore taken it upon myself to investigate the possibilities that have been advanced for Everyman1s being a translation of the Flemish play. Although I am in no position to make a definite conclusion, I feel that the arguments which I found point strongly to Elckerlijc as being the original.","abstract_html":"Although Everyman has long been conceded to be the best of the English moralities, very little is known of its origin. A number of English-speaking medieval scholars do state that it was derived from the Dutch morality Elckerlijc, but very little—nothing in the United States so far as I can determine—has been done to ascertain that alleged derivation. In spite of the fact that little has been said in either England or America regarding the Everyman-Elckerlijc question, it has been a topic of lively discussion in Belgium and the Netherlands for some seventy years. Having become interested in the subject, I have therefore taken it upon myself to investigate the possibilities that have been advanced for Everyman1s being a translation of the Flemish play. Although I am in no position to make a definite conclusion, I feel that the arguments which I found point strongly to Elckerlijc as being the original.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["De Smet, Imogene L."],"institution":"Creighton University","degree_name":null,"degree_level":null,"degree_discipline":null,"degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":[],"advisors":["Waters, Leonard A. 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