Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries write by Jody Enders. This book was released on 2022-06-24. Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Molière. 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.
Trial by Farce
Trial by Farce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trial by Farce write by Jody Enders. This book was released on 2023-03-06. Trial by Farce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was there more to comedy than Chaucer, the Second Shepherds’ Play, or Shakespeare? Of course! But, for a real taste of medieval and Renaissance humor and in-your-face slapstick, one must cross the Channel to France, where over two hundred extant farces regularly dazzled crowds with blistering satires. Dwarfing all other contemporaneous theatrical repertoires, the boisterous French corpus is populated by lawyers, lawyers everywhere. No surprise there. The lion’s share of mostly anonymous farces was written by barristers, law students, and legal apprentices. Famous for skewering unjust judges and irreligious ecclesiastics, they belonged to a 10,000-member legal society known as the Basoche, which flourished between 1450 and 1550. What is more, their dramatic send-ups of real and fictional court cases were still going strong on the eve of Molière, resilient against those who sought to censor and repress them. The suspenseful wait to see justice done has always made for high drama or, in this case, low drama. But, for centuries, the scripts for these outrageous shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and manuscript sources. In Trial by Farce, prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. Newly conceived as much for scholars as for students and theater practitioners, this repertoire and its familiar stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power, politics, class, gender, and, above all, justice. Through the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce, we gain a new understanding of comedy itself as form of political correction. In ways presciently modern and even postmodern, farce paints a different cultural picture of the notoriously authoritarian Middle Ages with its own vision of liberty and justice for all. Theater eternally offers ways for new generations to raise their voices and act.
The Immaculate Deception
The Immaculate Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immaculate Deception write by Charles G. Hinkle. This book was released on 1988-06-01. The Immaculate Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Immaculate Deception
Immaculate Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immaculate Deception write by Marie Mitchell. This book was released on 2002. Immaculate Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Immaculate Deception
Immaculate Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immaculate Deception write by Jack Collins. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Immaculate Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
