Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English by Enders, Jody

Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812254006)

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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English by Enders, Jody

Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English

$99.95
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English by Enders, Jody

Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English

$99.95
Format: Hardcover
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Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be the Second Coming? And that's nothing compared to what happens when comedy gets its grubby paws on the confessional. Enter fifteenth- and sixteenth-century French farce, the "bestseller" of a world that stands to tell us a lot about the enduring influence of a Shakespeare or a Moli鑽e. It's the sacrilegious world of Immaculate Deception, the third volume in a series of stage-friendly translations from the Middle French. Brought to you through the wonders of Open Access, these twelve engagingly funny satires target religious hypocrisy in that in-your-face way that only true slapstick can muster. There is literally nothing sacred.

Why this repertoire and why now? The current political climate has had dire consequences for the pleasures of satire at a cultural moment when we have never needed it more. It turns out that the proverbial Dark Ages had a lighter side; and France's over 200 rollicking, frolicking, singing, and dancing comedies--more extant than in any other vernacular--have waited long enough for their moment in the spotlight. They are seriously funny: funny enough to reclaim their place in cultural history, and serious enough to participate in the larger conversation about what it means to be a social influencer, then and now. Rather than relegate medieval texts to the dustbin of history, an unabashedly feminist translation can reframe and reject the sexism of bygone days by doing what theater always invites us to do: interpret, inflect, and adapt.

Author: Jody Enders
ISBN-10: 0812254007
ISBN-13: 9780812254006
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2022
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d
By Jody Enders
By Jody Enders
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Jody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is editor and translator of "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English and "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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