... like Everyman cannot fail to confer it's message across as the connotation is so lucid. Everyman had an uncomplicated structure that did not entail a lot in the way of cast or props on the stage. The image of Death was often dressed to look repulsive on the medieval stage. 'The denizens of Hell were solid, physically repulsive and acceptable on the stage only as comic figures, inevitably to be repelled and made to look absurd by the forces of righteousness.' (Kinghorn, 1968: 73) Death is the one thing that Everyman fears most so in order for the audience to be frightened too, it was wise to represent Death in total hideousness. There are no records to show how the stage was set when Everyman was staged or even evidence of whether it was enacted or not, but we can easily assume it is of a very simplistic nature because ...

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