Note 587 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES

Julleville, Les Com., passim. A collection of farces is in E. L. N. Viollet-le-Duc, Ancien Théâtre français (1854-7). For morals and farces at the Feasts of Fools and of the Boy Bishop abroad, and for the satirical tendency of such entertainments, cf. vol. i. p. 380. In 1427, after the feast of St. Laurent, Jean Bussières, chaplain of St. Remi de Troyes, ‘emendavit quod fecerat certum perconnagium rimarum in cimiterio dicte ecclesie Sancti Remigii; de quibus rimis fuerat dyabolus et dixerat plura verba contra viros ecclesiasticos’ (Inv. des Arch, de l’Aube, sér. G, i. 243). The fifteenth-century Dutch farces appear to have been played at the meetings of the Rederijkerkammern, and the German Fastnachtsspiele, which derive largely from folk ludi, by associations of handicraftsmen (Creizenach, i. 404, 407).