sotie
or sot·tie
[soh-tee]
- a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
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Origin of sotie
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This was followed by the Sotie itself; then followed the morality, and lastly a farce.
A Short History of French LiteratureGeorge Saintsbury
The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit.
The morality was the special property of the first, the sotie of the second.