Anonymous - Mankind
Mankind, like many other morality plays (including Everyman) is anonymous; and we have no solid biographical information about its author. The places named in Mankind are mostly villages near Cambridge and King’s Lynn (two towns approximately 40 miles apart), so there is reason to suppose that the author may have either lived in, or have been born in, that area. Other than that, we can only consider facts presented to us by the text itself: the author knows Latin, has some legal knowledge, is...
