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Podcast: Beyond Shakespeare
Episode: Interludium de Clerico et Puella (Fragment)
Description: Interludium de Clerico et Puella or The Student and the Girl (Fragments)This fragmentary play comes from around 1300, and survives as two scenes - the first where a student tries to woo a young woman (Malkyn) who rebuffs him, the second where he goes to Mome Elwis, a wise woman, to seek her aid to changing Malkyns mind. The fragments end at this point and we never discover whether Elwis does assist him, or what her plan might be - though the similarity with the earlier Dame Sirith text suggests one possible outcome, which we will cover in...