Maistre Pathelin

  • Performed by Les Comédiens d’Antan
  • Directed by Christopher Callahan
  • Recorded May 2006
  • The Chaucer Studio, 2009
  • CD
  • (10 tracks, 67 minutes) (ICMS Readings 7) (ICMS007). No ISBN. Apparently available only from Chaucer Studio: Maistre Pathelin CD
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  • Digital Download
  • (10 tracks, 67 minutes) (ICMS Readings 7) (ICMS107). No ISBN. Apparently available only from Chaucer Studio: Maistre Pathelin Download 

Under the direction of Christopher Callahan, a group of philologists deliver a lively reading—in 15th-century French—of La Farce de maître Pathelin, a popular comedy featuring a lawyer and his wife, a doctor, a creditor, a judge, and a clever shepherd.

Readers

  • Christopher Callahan (Illinois Wesleyan University)—Maistre Pierre Pathelin
  • Joan Tasker Grimbert (The Catholic University of America)—Guillemette, Pathelin’s wife
  • Jesse Hurlbut (Brigham Young University)—the shepherd
  • Daniel E. O’Sullivan (The University of Mississippi)—Pathelin’s creditor, a cloth merchant
  • Samuel N. Rosenberg (Indiana University)—the judge

See the 1490-1491 printing of this play

To follow along in a 1490-1491 printing of Maistre Pierre Pathelin, go to the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15246912 . (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département Réserve des livres rares, RES-YE-243.)