Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion

Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion is reputedly the earliest French secular play with music, written around 1282 or 1283 by Adam de la Halle, the author's most famous work. It was performed at the Angevin court in Naples, where the author had gone in the service of Robert II of Artois. It has been suggested that the choice of genre was especially poignant for courtiers homesick for France.

The play dramatizes the pastourelle, a traditional medieval French song genre that tells of an encounter between a knight and a shepherdess, often named Marion. Adam de la Halle gives greater weight to Marion, her lover Robin and their friends after she resists the knight's advances. The text alternates dialogue in the old Picard dialect of Arras, the author's home town, with short refrains in a popular style. Their melodies have the character of folk music, and two of them also appear in motets attributed to the author, though that attribution is unconfirmed.

In 1896 Julien Tiersot's adaptation was performed at Arras at a festival in honour of Adam de la Halle.