The secular texts, apart from occasional local orthographical variants, are typical of courtly lyric poetry in 14th century France.
Like all the lyric poets of the age, they are a curious mixture of the Elizabethan and the Puritan standards.
Strictly speaking the drama has but two divisions, tragedy and comedy, in which are included the many subordinate forms of tragi-comedy, melodrama, lyric drama (opera), farce, etc.