Moralité à six personnages (BNF ms. fr. 25467) (Textes Litteraires Francais) (French Edition)

Medieval theater was street theater and a place for protest, in which the polysemy of the expression "public space" is well-situated. The La Vallière collection remarkably illustrates this, alternating four plays: two farces, each followed by a morality play. Of these, the morality plays justify the collection's existence. Joël Blanchard has already published the first of these, Moralité à cinq personages , and now publishes Moralité à six personages , an exceptional text that combines theater, astrology and politics, denouncing the governmental methods of Louis XI at the time of the Estates General of 1484. The author, possibly Henri Baude, was a man of the courts, aware of university and political mores, and a gifted rhetorician. Publishing Moralité à six personages for the first time, Joël Blanchard deciphers a difficult text, offering new light on the political and cultural history of the second half of the fifteenth century. French text.