Immaculate Deception And Further Ribaldries

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812298598

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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries by Jody Enders Pdf

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.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472903177

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Trial by Farce by Jody Enders Pdf

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.

Author : Charles G. Hinkle,Sparkie Hinkle Watson
Publisher : Vantage Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 053307553X

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The Immaculate Deception by Charles G. Hinkle,Sparkie Hinkle Watson Pdf

Author : Robert Chiappetta
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681391687

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The Immaculate Deception by Robert Chiappetta Pdf

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.

Author : Jack Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1861066368

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Immaculate Deception by Jack Collins Pdf

Author : Iain M Pears, M.D,Iain Pears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743422082

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The Immaculate Deception by Iain M Pears, M.D,Iain Pears Pdf

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.

Author : Stacey Sauter
Publisher : Onyx Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451191358

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Immaculate Deception by Stacey Sauter Pdf

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.

Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Argyll, Jonathan (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0753165058

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The Immaculate Deception by Iain Pears Pdf

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.

Author : Ken Baumbach
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497360269

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Immaculate Deception by Ken Baumbach Pdf

The former First Lady and current POTUS and her previous intern, now CEO of the world's largest corporation, vie to become the most powerful woman in the world, which escalates into a terrorist plot that could wipe out the Eastern seaboard and kill tens of millions of people.

Author : Hannah Weston Price
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790241685

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Immaculate Deception by Hannah Weston Price Pdf

The Vicar of Dibley meets Father Brown in this funny and deadly new mystery series.A lady Vicar struggling with her faith, and not wholly in control of her mouth, Reverend Reggie Watson hopes that a small village parish will offer the fresh start she needs.But almost immediately, Reggie manages to get on the wrong side of the parish chairwoman and the handsome Detective Harry Thornton. But it's when the beloved Sunday School teacher, Elsa Murphy, is found dead, that the Devil's Food cakes really hit the fan!All the evidence points to suicide, but the plucky Vicar simply will not accept that a sweet and pious woman like Elsa Murphy would take her own life. And Reggie will prove it herself if she must.On the surface, Patchwork Hill appears to be a picturesque English village, but underneath scandalous secrets and festering grudges have set down roots and grow like poisonous weeds.This killer might be clever, but they haven't faced the wit and dogged stubbornness of The Nosy Vicar and her mischievous church cat.Immaculate Deception is a British cozy mystery full of quirky characters, laughs, a hint of romance, and a murder so horrible you won't be able to stop reading till you've seen justice served.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812205015

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"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries by Jody Enders Pdf

Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sûr. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met the scatological in popular performances presented by roving troupes in public squares that skewered sex, politics, and religion. For centuries, the scripts for these outrageous, anonymously written shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and manuscript sources. Now prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest of these farces to contemporary English-speaking audiences in "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries. Enders's translation captures the full richness of the colorful characters, irreverent humor, and over-the-top plotlines, all in a refreshingly uncensored American vernacular. Those who have never heard the one about the Cobbler, the Monk, the Wife, and the Gatekeeper should prepare to be shocked and entertained. "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries is populated by hilarious characters high and low. For medievalists, theater practitioners, and classic comedy lovers alike, Enders provides a wealth of information about the plays and their history. Helpful details abound for each play about plot, character development, sets, staging, costumes, and props. This performance-friendly collection offers in-depth guidance to actors, directors, dramaturges, teachers, and their students. "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries puts fifteenth-century French farce in its rightful place alongside Chaucer, Shakespeare, commedia dell'arte, and Molière—not to mention Monty Python. Vive la Farce!

Author : Nicetas Choniates
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0814317642

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O City of Byzantium by Nicetas Choniates Pdf

One of the most important accounts of the Middle Ages, the history of Niketas Choniates describes the Byzantine Empire from 1118 to 1207. Niketas provides an eyewitness account of the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade.

Author : Craig B. Brush
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401196765

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Montaigne and Bayle by Craig B. Brush Pdf

It is traditional in the literature on Pierre Bayle to make some refer ene e to iVlontaigne as one of the masters of skepticism in whose tracks he follows, albeit hardly so eloselyas Charron had. Time and again critics feel the need to mention Montaigne and Bayle in the same context, sometimes to contrast their brands of Pyrrhonism, more often to explain similarities in their ideas and methods, which have frequent ly been regarded as important steps in the gradual evolution of un Christian, even anti-Christian, thought. Their names were already associated during Bayle's life, for example, in the mediocre work by Dom Alexis Gaudin, La Distinction et la Nature du Bien et du MaI, Traite ou l'on combat l'erreur des Manicheens, les sentimens de Jvfontaigne & de Charron, & ceux de J. Vfonsieur Bayle. In the nineteen th century, the author of the Dictionnaire historique et critique wa~ generally elassified as a skeptic; and his name was inevi tably linked with the essayist's. In his Port-Royal, Sainte-Beuve pictured Bayle as one of the avowed skeptics in Montaigne's funeral cortege and spoke of both men as "d'autant pIus fourbes qu'ils ne le sont pas toujours." His later works show that he revised his opinion on each somewhat, l but in this he was unusual for his century.

Author : Robert B. Waltz
Publisher : Robert B. Waltz
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary by Robert B. Waltz Pdf

The “Gest” is the earliest major writing about Robin Hood — although it tells a tale very different from that found in most modern retellings. This version attempts to produce a more accurate text of the long-lost original; it also provides a modernized parallel. To this is added an extensive historical introduction, line-by-line commentary, vocabulary study, and a selection of other texts which clarify the context of the "Gest." Dedicated to Patricia Rosenberg.

Author : Éliphas Lévi
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066452872

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The History of Magic by Éliphas Lévi Pdf

"The History of Magic" by Éliphas Lévi (translated by Arthur Edward Waite). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.