biography
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Halle, Adam de la
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known as Adam le Bossu (‘Adam the Hunchback’) or le Bossu trouvère
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pronunciation:
[adã duh la al]
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| lived:
| (c.1250–c.1306)
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| biography:
| Poet, musician, and innovator of the earliest French secular theatre, probably born in Arras, N France. He was court poet and musician to Robert II of Artois, and followed him to Naples in 1283. He wrote numerous lyrical plays, polyphonic love songs, motets, rondeaux, and dramatic jeux, such as Le Jeu de la fuellée (c.1276, Play of the Greensward),a kind of satirical review of the inhabitants of Arras. Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, considered the precursor of comic opera, was played at the court of Charles d'Anjou in Naples in 1275. |
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