that far away from these late medieval morality plays. By these late medieval dramas the transition from medieval to modern drama may be seen, also due to the fact that for instance in Mankind the actors collected money for their performance during the play itself. That might be considered as the beginning of professionalism in English drama.
             Mankind, just like two other Medieval Morality Plays named Everyman and Mundus et Infans, is anonymous. But nevertheless a few suppositions, as far as the author is concerned, may be made. One has to search for useful hints in the text in the play itself. Important hints, one can get from the text, are the places named in the play, which are mostly villages near Cambridge and King's Lynn. "East Anglian towns some forty miles apart, and there are some slight signs that the author's knowledge of the former locality was the more thorough" (Lester, page x
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