. Short comic plays in verse whose characters, usually five in number, are sots (“fools”) or the equivalent. Approximately twenty-five comic plays from late-medieval France have in their title the terms sots or sottie (or sotie), In...

. Among the dramatic monologues or one-character plays of the late Middle Ages are parodies of wills, mandates, prognostications, and especially of sermons. About thirty of these sermons joyeux have survived from the 15th and early 16th centuries....

Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. The material and...