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Adam de la Halle

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{duh lah ahl} Adam de la Halle, known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback), c.1250-c.1288, was a French poet and musician who wrote lyrics of courtly love and two popular plays, Le Jeu de la Feuillee (The Play of the Greensward, 1276) and Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (c.1283). The former, a satirical comedy, presents an early form of the harlequin, later a stock character of the Italian commedia dell'arte. Adam's second drama is a pastoral set to music that anticipates the style of comic opera. He is regarded as the originator of French secular drama.

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