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Article: Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte. By PIERRE GRINGORE. Ed. by ALAN HINDLEY. (La Renaissance Francaise, Editions et Monographies, 9) Paris: Champion, 2000. 213 pp. 250 F. ISBN 2-7453-0475-5.
Pierre Gringore's play--in fact three related plays, a sottie, a morality, and a farce, totalling about 1,500 lines, and performed at the Halles in Paris on Mardi Gras in 1512--is a remarkable work in many ways; it is therefore all the more surprising that no true critical edition of the complete work has ever been published, although the farce was recently edited by Andre Tissier. Alan Hindley's fine edition has now filled this gap. The Jeu is somewhat unusual in that it ...