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The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)

Note 626 — Chapter XXV · HUMANISM AND MEDIAEVALISM

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Boethius, who of course understood the nature of comedy and tragedy, says (Cons. Philosoph. ii. pr. 2. 36) ‘quid tragoediarum clamor aliud deflet, nisi indiscreto ictu fortunam felicia regna vertentem?’ This becomes in the paraphrase of his eleventh-century commentator Notker Labeo (ed. Hattemar, 52ᵇ) ‘tragoediae sínt luctuosa carmina. álso díu sínt. díu sophocles scréib apud grecos. de euersionibus regnorum et urbium. únde sínt uuideruuártig tien comoediis. án dîen uuir îo gehórên laetum únde iocundum exitum.’

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