This work presents, for the first time together, two early modern everyman plays in which the radical changes of the Reformation era are reflected- a distinctive excerpt from a history of subject matter that reaches from the late antiquity to Hofmannsthal and further to Philip Roth. The introduction, translation and commentary make the works available to a broader audience. The volume also provides insight into the conditions of literary communication in the early modern period and the correlation between New Latin and Early New High German literature.