Also known as:
French: Adam le Bossu, le boste d'Arras
ADAM DE LA HALLE. - French trouvère, b. near Arras in 1220, d. at Naples in 1287, also called le boste d'Arras.
Having been directed toward the priesthood, he married, then abandoned his wife and his native city, and resumed his studies. He followed Count Robert II of Arras to the court of Charles of Anjou. Of his poetic works the best known is Le Jeu de la feuillée (c. 1262), or Jeu d'Adam, or Jeu du mariage, which is the oldest French comedy in the vernacular. In two vast scenes, divided by a féerie, the trouvère sets forth his own affairs and holds up to ridicule various inhabitants of Arras, women, medicines, relics, friars, and ecclesiastical customs. At the court of Naples, A. composed, set to music, and performed in 1283 Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, which is the first pastoral comedy and, one might say, the first comic opera. Le Jeu du pèlerin is also attributed to him, perhaps erroneously.
Bibliography6 worksEdizioni: Oeuvres complètes du trouvère A. de la H., Poèmes et musique, ed. C. E. H. de Coussemaker, Paris 1872; E. Langlois, Le Jeu de la f
BIBL.:Edizioni: Oeuvres complètes du trouvère A. de la H., Poèmes et musique, ed. C. E. H. de Coussemaker, Paris 1872; E. Langlois, Le Jeu de la feuillée, and Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion (critical texts), 2nd ed., Paris 1923. — Studies: L. Petit de Julleville, La comédie et les mœurs en France au M. A., Paris 1886; L. Clédat, Le théâtre en France au M. A., ibid. 1896; H. Guy, Essai sur la vie et les œuvres du trouvère A. de la H., ibid. 1900; G. Gassies des Brulies, Anth. du théâtre français du M. A., ibid. 1928; G. Mayer, Lexique des œuvres d'A. de la H., ibid. 1940. Cf. also the article by J. Bédier, Les commencements du théâtre comique en France, in Revue des deux mondes, 40 (15 June 1890), pp. 871-97.
Casnati, Francesco. “Adamo de La Halle.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 281. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-de-la-halle.
MLA
Casnati, Francesco. “Adamo de La Halle.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 281. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-de-la-halle.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_adamo_de_la_halle,
author = {Casnati, Francesco},
title = {Adamo de La Halle},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {281},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-de-la-halle}
}
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