Note 428 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS

I do not think that these Dutch plays have been printed. The MS., in the Royal Library at Brussels, is described by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Horae Belgicae, vi, xxix; cf. Creizenach, i. 366. Besides the three chivalric plays, it contains a dramatized estrif of Summer and Winter (cf. vol. i. p. 187) included with them under the general title of ‘abele Spelen,’ and also a long farce or ‘Boerd.’ To each of the five plays, moreover, is attached a short farcical after-piece. A few notices of other fifteenth-century Dutch chivalric plays are preserved. The subjects are Arnoute, Ronchevale, Florys und Blancheflor, Gryselle (Griseldis); cf. Creizenach, i. 372.