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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298594
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries written by Jody Enders and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903179
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Trial by Farce written by Jody Enders and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Charles G. Hinkle
Publisher : Vantage Press
ISBN 13 : 9780533075539
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Immaculate Deception written by Charles G. Hinkle and published by Vantage Press. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Immaculate Deception

Author : Iain M Pears, M.D
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780743422086
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Immaculate Deception written by Iain M Pears, M.D and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seventh novel in the series featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll begins as Jonathan's new wife, Italian Art Theft Squad leader Flavia di Stefano, is under pressure to find a painting stolen en route from the Louvre to Rome. Meanwhile, Jonathan investigates a Renaissance painting of the Immaculate Conception, owned by Flavia's retired mentor.

Immaculate Deception

Author : Jack Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861066367
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Immaculate Deception written by Jack Collins and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Immaculate Deception

Author : Robert Chiappetta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681391670
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Immaculate Deception written by Robert Chiappetta and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the risk of death and great bodily harm were foreseeable, rather than changing their conduct they chose to run the risk. A sinister gamble virtually assuring death with the greatest possible violence. It is apparent that both corporations had willfully entered into an amoral and criminal quagmire that the law can only begin to address. The children's mortal wounds are quintessential examples of theocratic and bureaucratic corruption fulfilling their deadly potential.

Immaculate Deception

Author : Stacey Sauter
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451191359
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Immaculate Deception written by Stacey Sauter and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Harrison is young, beautiful and deeply in love with her husband, despite the hard financial times they are going through at the start of married life in Manhattan. Nowell Stuart seems to be the answer to her prayers. The incredibly charming Englishman offers her the kind of job she longs for, the help she and her husband need. Catherine can hardly believe her good fortune. Then she begins to learn what Nowell wants in return. He wants her. And to make sure, as only he can, Nowell Stuart will stop at nothing--even murder.

The Immaculate Deception

Author : Iain Pears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753165058
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Immaculate Deception written by Iain Pears and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.