Trial By Farce

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : George Albert Drovin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20506475

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A Lawyer's Trials by George Albert Drovin Pdf

Author : John Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:41026227

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Trial by Moonlight by John Kirkpatrick Pdf

Author : Lou Falkner Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820326597

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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 by Lou Falkner Williams Pdf

It is remarkable that the most serious intervention by the federal government to protect the rights of its new African American citizens during Reconstruction (and well beyond) has not, until now, received systematic scholarly study. In The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, Lou Falkner Williams presents a comprehensive account of the events following the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the Reconstruction era. It is a gripping story--one that helps us better understand the limits of constitutional change in post-Civil War America and the failure of Reconstruction. The South Carolina Klan trials represent the culmination of the federal government's most substantial effort during Reconstruction to stop white violence and provide personal security for African Americans. Federal interventions, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, and highly publicized trials resulting in the conviction of several Klansmen are all detailed in Williams's study. When the trials began, the Supreme Court had yet to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Acts. Thus the fourth federal circuit court became a forum for constitutional experimentation as the prosecution and defense squared off to present their opposing views. The fate of the individual Klansmen was almost incidental to the larger constitutional issues in these celebrated trials. It was the federal judge's devotion to state-centered federalism--not a lack of concern for the Klan's victims--that kept them from embracing constitutional doctrine that would have fundamentally altered the nature of the Union. Placing the Klan trials in the context of postemancipation race relations, Williams shows that the Klan's campaign of terror in the upcountry reflected white determination to preserve prewar racial and social standards. Her analysis of Klan violence against women breaks new ground, revealing that white women were attacked to preserve traditional southern sexual mores, while crimes against black women were designed primarily to demonstrate white male supremacy. Well-written, cogently argued, and clearly presented, this comprehensive account of the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the late 1860s and early 1870s makes a significant contribution to the history of Reconstruction and race relations in the United States.

Author : M. Jansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400976061

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A Show Trial Under Lenin by M. Jansen Pdf

Soviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances. We have nothing to be afraid of, if our people fully learns to distinguish who are its friends and who are its enemies. The trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries must and shall be a great step forward in the cause of the political instruction of the very broadest masses in town and country. (Grigorii Zinov'ev, Pravda and Krasnaia gazeta, 20 June 1922) For my part, I considered this trial to be unnecessary: the Socialist Revolu tionaries had been beaten and represented no visible danger at all. (Charles Rappoport, Ma vie, Paris 1926-1927, Vol. 2, p. 80) The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in October 1917 by staging a coup d'etat, and then established a dictatorship. The new rulers sup pressed all armed resistance in a bloody civil war, after which they made every effort to uproot and exterminate even peaceful political opposition of all kinds. Even now it is impossible in the Soviet Union to subject these developments to critical historical study. The political opponents of the Soviet regime of the time are still regarded by official Soviet his toriography as counter-revolutionaries and the measures taken against them are seen as completely justified.

Author : California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B3596485

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West's Annotated California Codes: Civil Code by California Pdf

Author : George Albert [From Old Cata Drovin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022757695

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A Lawyer's Trials; a Farce .. by George Albert [From Old Cata Drovin Pdf

In this hilarious farce, George Albert Drovin pokes fun at the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of the legal profession, providing readers with a rollicking good time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : E. Bruce Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317072317

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Rabelais's Radical Farce by E. Bruce Hayes Pdf

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of the theater of farce and its literary possibilities. By tracing the development of farce in late medieval and Renaissance comedic theater in comparison to the evolution of farce in Rabelais's work, Hayes distinguishes Rabelais's use of the device from traditional farce. While traditional farce is primarily conservative in its aims, with an emphasis on maintaining the status quo, Rabelais puts farce to radical new uses, making it subversive in his own work. Bruce Hayes examines the use of farce in Pantagruel, Gargantua, and the Tiers and Quart livres, showing how Rabelais recast farce in a humanist context, making it a vehicle for attacking the status quo and posing alternatives to contemporary legal, educational, and theological systems. Rabelais's Radical Farce illustrates the rich possibilities of a genre often considered simplistic and unsophisticated, disclosing how Rabelais in fact introduced both a radical reformulation of farce, and a new form of humanist satire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112082286417

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The Rod and Gun and American Sportsman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015081935903

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Michigan Statutes Annotated by Michigan Pdf

Author : Shelley Streeby
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822395546

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Radical Sensations by Shelley Streeby Pdf

The significant anarchist, black, and socialist world-movements that emerged in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth adapted discourses of sentiment and sensation and used the era's new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation. Drawing attention to the vast archive of images and texts created by radicals prior to the 1930s, Shelley Streeby analyzes representations of violence and of abuses of state power in response to the Haymarket police riot, of the trial and execution of the Chicago anarchists, and of the mistreatment and imprisonment of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón and other members of the Partido Liberal Mexicano. She considers radicals' reactions to and depictions of U.S. imperialism, state violence against the Yaqui Indians in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the failure of the United States to enact laws against lynching, and the harsh repression of radicals that accelerated after the United States entered the First World War. By focusing on the adaptation and critique of sentiment, sensation, and visual culture by radical world-movements in the period between the Haymarket riots of 1886 and the deportation of Marcus Garvey in 1927, Streeby sheds new light on the ways that these movements reached across national boundaries, criticized state power, and envisioned alternative worlds.

Author : California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000049179606

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West's Annotated California Codes: ... by California Pdf

Author : Dr Awol Allo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781472444608

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The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance by Dr Awol Allo Pdf

This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela’s masterful performance, when he stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria’s Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal, spatial, temporal, performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom.

Author : Andrew Crowther
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0838638392

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Contradiction Contradicted by Andrew Crowther Pdf

This book is a critical study of the dramatic works of W. S. Gilbert -- not only the famous libretti for other composers, but also his comedies and farces, his serious dramas, and his blank-verse plays. Aspects of his craft such as plot construction, lyric writing, and "stage management" (directing) are discussed. The bulk of the book explores the ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the plays, with particular attention to his concern with irony and inversion.

Author : Yumiko Yasuda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317417347

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Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies by Yumiko Yasuda Pdf

There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development. This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments. Through a comparison of two NGO coalitions in Cambodia and Vietnam advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River, the book explores the intricate interactions of formal and informal rules and norms and how they influence advocacy strategies. A framework for analysis is proposed which serves as a tool for analysis by civil society actors. The author generates fresh insights into the way in which opportunities and barriers are created for NGOs to influence state-centric decision-making processes. The book also discusses Mekong riparian states’ negotiation process over the Xayaburi hydropower dam in detail, providing an analysis of the Mekong River’s governance under the 1995 Mekong Agreement. The book concludes by suggesting ways to improve the engagement of civil society actors in the governance of transboundary rivers and development projects.