Note 442 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS

Creizenach, i. 470; Julleville, La Com. 44, 78. The earliest French notice is that of the ‘Gieux des sept vertuz et des sept pechiez mortelz’ at Tours in 1390. A ‘mystère de Bien-Avisé et Malavisé’ is said to have been played in 1396 (Julleville, Rép. com. 324). The extant play of that name, somewhat later in date, is a morality. Other early French morals on a large scale are L’Homme juste et l’Homme mondain (1508) and L’Homme pécheur (†1494) (Julleville, Rép. com. 39, 67, 72). All these are on variants of the Contrast of Vice and Virtue theme.