Pierre Gringore

Pierre Gringore (* 1475 in Thury-Harcourt , Département Calvados , † 1539 in Lorraine ) was a French writer, dramaturge and actor.

life and work

Gringore belonged to the theater troupe of the Enfants sans souci , which was specialized in the genre of the Sottie (fool play) with the main characters Prince des Sots (head idiot), Mère Sotte (idiot) and Sotte commune ( idiot people ). Gringore brought the genre to its peak as a writer, director and actor before it was then superseded by the Italian Commedia dell'arte .

The most famous of Gringore's games of fools ( Le jeu du prince des sotz et de mère sotte , 1512) was commissioned by King Louis XII. written as a political weapon against Pope Julius II , who (portrayed by Gringore himself) appears in the disguise of Mère Sotte and is exposed in the end. After King Ludwig's death, Gringore went to Nancy to the court of Anton II of Lorraine . At his request he wrote a pamphlet against Luther in 1524 with the title Le Blason des hérétiques .

Gringore appears under the name Pierre Gringoire in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and in the play Gringoire by Théodore de Banville , both of which do not do justice to his true historical personality.

Works

• Œuvres complètes de Gringore , ed. by Charles d'Héricault, Anatole de Montaiglon and James de Rothschild, Paris, Jannet, 2 vols., 1858–1877.

(Issues since 1950)

• La sottie du prince des sotz , ed. by Pasquale Aniel Jannini , Milan, Cisalpino, 1957.
• Pierre Gringore's Les fantaisies de Mère Sotte , ed. by Richard Frautschi, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1962.
• Lettres nouvelles de Milan , ed. by Enea Balmas , Milan, Cisalpino, 1968.
• L'Union des Princes , ed. by Anna Slerca, Milan, Vita e pensiero, 1977; Paris, Éditions Classiques Garnier Numérique, 2001.
• Le jeu du prince des sotz et de mère sotte , critical ed. by Alain Hindley, Paris, Champion, 2000.
• Sottie du Prince des Sotz , ed. by Edouard Fournier (1790–1880), Paris, Éditions Classiques Garnier Numérique, 2001.
• Œuvres polémiques rédigées sous le règne de Louis XII , ed. by Cynthia Jane Brown, Geneva, Droz, 2003 (Lettres nouvelles de Milan. La piteuse complainte de la Terre Sainte. L'entreprise de Venise. L'union des princes. L'espoir de paix. La chasse du cerf des cerfz. Le jeu du prince des sotz et mère sotte. L'obstination des Suysses).
• Les entrées royales à Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) and Claude de France (1517) , ed. by Cynthia Jane Brown, Geneva, Droz, 2005.

literature

• Charles Oulmont , Etude sur la langue de Pierre Gringore , Paris, Champion, 1911.
• Charles Oulmont, La poésie morale, politique et dramatique à la veille de la Renaissance. Pierre Gringore , Paris, Champion, 1911, 1969; Geneva, Slatkine, 1976.
• Walter Dittmann, Pierre Gringore as playwrights. A contribution to the history of French theater , Berlin, Ebering, 1923; Nendeln, Kraus, 1967 (Diss. Berlin 1919).
• Henri Guy , Histoire de la poésie française au XVIe siècle , Vol. 1, Paris 1910, 1968, Geneva 1998, pp. 278-296.

Manual literature

• Pierre Voltz (* 1933), La comédie , Paris, A. Colin, 1964, pp. 27-28.
• Robert Sabatier , La Poésie du XVIe siècle , Paris, Albin Michel, 1975, pp. 29–31.
• "Pierre Gringore, Le jeu du prince des sotz et mère sotte", in: Major works of French literature. Individual presentations and interpretations , ed. by Irene Schwendemann, Munich, Kindler, 1976, p. 40.
• Michel Mourre (1928–1977), "Pierre Gringore", in: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des oeuvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Auteurs , Paris 1994, pp. 1322-1323 (Bouquins series).
• Armand Strubel (* 1950), "Pierre Gringore", in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, p. 789.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre Gringore in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)