KCL Annual Medieval Latin Play, ‘Hecastus’

The Department of History at King’s College London is proud to present its 11^th annual Medieval Latin Play.

HECASTUS (Everyman)
By Georgius Macropedius (Joris van Lanckvelt)

In the original Latin (with English surtitles)

Performance: Thursday 31^st March 2016, 7.30 pm.
College Chapel, King’s College London, Strand WC2R 2LS.

All are welcome; no reservations necessary.

The Hecastus, first published in 1539, is the Latin masterpiece among the early modern “Everyman” plays. It combines to thrilling effect the refined language and dramaturgy of an accomplished humanist with the brutal simplicity of this most universal of all morality tales: a happy and prosperous man suddenly learns that it is time for him to die. He is not ready for death and judgment, and yet he cannot escape …