Cap Fréhel

the soul of Everyman, the World or the ‘Povre Peuple’. But some of the 80 extant moralities also reflect current social and even political concerns and on occasion come close to the comic sotie which used a cast of fools whose costume (asses’ ears, cap and bells) grants them the licence of their folly to launch outspoken attacks on establishment values. Farce dealt more generally with human failings and used plots and characters from the fabliau tradition: deceitful wives and biters bit. The most