"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English  -  Jody Enders

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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 fro...
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Uitgever: University Of Pennsylvania Press 477 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0812222512 ISBN-13: 9780812222517
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