Who is Mak and Gill from Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays and what is their importance? "Everyman

Mak is a conniving, thieving shepherd and Gill is his shrewish, equally conniving wife. When Mak plots to steal a sheep, Gill abets his crime by concealing the stolen animal. Their efforts at concealing their crime may be essentially comic, but the moral embodied by their actions and their comeuppance (revelation of the truth) is essentially serious—that crime will always be revealed, and that morality and truth will transcend earthly, greed-defined concealment.