Coquillart, Guillaume (c.1452-1510). Highly regarded by Clément Marot and his generation, this playwright came from a prosperous family in Reims and studied law. His early work, associated with the Basoche, was written primarily for an audience of law-students, hence the mock-legal frameworks. Later, as well as shorter poems, he produced a range of comic satiric performance pieces (monologues, dialogues, some of doubtful attribution), including notably a parodic Débat des dames et des armes.
[Jane Taylor]
