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"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries

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Description for "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries Hardcover. Crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable a millennium later, Jody Enders's translations of twelve medieval French farces take on the hilariously depressing-and depressingly hilarious-state of holy wedlock. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 552 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2AB; 3F; 3H; DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 962.

Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this and more, and shares it in her second volume of performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces. Carefully culled from more than two hundred ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248746
SKU
V9780812248746
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jody Enders
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, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews for "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
"Scurrilous, sexy, stupid, satirical, scatological, side-splitting, and probably something else beginning with 's,' Jody Enders's translation of twelve French farces is a real discovery that goes a long way to readjusting our perception of the Middle Ages. Enders is a great champion of comedy at its most vulgar and hilarious. She points out that however silly or banal these farces ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries


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