CAROL ANN DUFFY'S EVERYMAN AS A METAMODERN ADAPTATION
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Carol Ann Duffy’s 2015 play Everyman is a re-creation of medieval morality play of the same title, it brings medieval/contemporary concerns together under the subject of mortality. Based on Linda Hutcheon’s adaptation theory, the play re-creates the confrontation with the mortality; the focus on the salvation and judgment in the medieval play shifts to contemporary existential concerns and the collective responsibility towards environment in Duffy’s adaptation; shedding light on the inequality, responsibility, and religious doubt the individual, on a larger scale, the humanity, faces in a more secular and material world. Everyman addresses today’s audience by maintaining corporeal and incorporeal aspects of mortality in medieval ages, and by turning to 21st century consumerism, ethics, eco-critical concerns. The play is explored through Vermeulen and van den Akker’s metamodern approach, as it oscillates between despair, irony and hope, critiques the current existentialist and moral dilemmas-both human and non-human-with a subtle implication of call for action and sincere reckoning. This study enables for a metamodern analysis of Everyman arguing that it reimagines death in the contemporary society, amidst the ecological crisis, materialism, and ambiguity, as both an individual moral reckoning and collective responsibility connecting history with the present. The study further implicates that metamodernism is not restricted to oscillation between modernism and postmodernism, but a cultural tendency that transcends any period, and it enables for new possibilities for reading adaptations of pre-modern texts from a metamodern lens.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Adaptation, Death, Metamodernism, Morality.
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