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Jody Enders "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries (Hardback) Middle Ages Series
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- Publication Name
- "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
- Title
- "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
- Subtitle
- Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English
- Contributor
- Jody Enders (Edited and translated by)
- ISBN-10
- 0812248740
- EAN
- 9780812248746
- ISBN
- 9780812248746
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 03/01/2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Series
- Middle Ages Series
- Book Title
- Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries : Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Drama, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Medieval, European / French
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 552 Pages
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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 extant farces, and crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers, the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery, and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social change finds its start where comedy itself begins--at home.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812248740
ISBN-13
9780812248746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038783885
Product Key Features
Book Title
Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries : Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medieval, European / French
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Drama, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
552 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq1240.E8h65 2017
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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 may appear to us, they nonetheless confront the real controversies of their day over the law, politics, religion, social order, or the battle of the sexes. Thoroughly grounded in her academic approach to the subject, Enders nevertheless writes with liveliness and humor and wit. She is unafraid to reference modern comedy in her translations and insists on the primacy of performance in assessing these comedies from half a millennium ago., "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 may appear to us, they nonetheless confront the real controversies of their day over the law, politics, religion, social order, or the battle of the sexes. Thoroughly grounded in her academic approach to the subject, Enders nevertheless writes with liveliness and humor and wit. She is unafraid to reference modern comedy in her translations and insists on the primacy of performance in assessing these comedies from half a millennium ago."--Terry Jones, on Enders's Farce of the Fart
Table of Content
On Abbreviations, Short Titles, and Endnotes Introduction, Part Deux: Seriously Funny About This Translation -- Une Traduction engagée , a Feminist Appropriation --On Anonymity, Naming, and Renaming --Critical Apparatus --Editions and Printed Sources --Order of Presentation --Stage Directions --Money, Money, Money --Grammar, Style, and "Foreign-Language" Materials --Prose, Verse, Music, and Choreography Brief Plot Summaries THE PLAYS Actors' Prologue 1. The Newlywed Game [ Le Conseil au Nouveau Marié ] ( RBM , #1) 2. The Shithouse [ Le Retraict ] ( RLV , #54) 3. Pots and Scams , or, The Farce of the Kettle-Maker [ Un Chaudronnier ] ( RBM , #30) 4. For the Birds , or, Conjugal Birdplay [ La Mauvaistié des femmes ] ( RC , #48) 5. The Jackass Conjecture , or, Animal Husbandry [ Le Pont aux 'nes ] ( RBM , #25) 6. Match, Point, Counterpoint , or, The Old Lover vs. the Young Lover [ Le Viel Amoureulx et le Jeune Amoureulx ] ( RLV , #9) 7. Holy Deadlock , or, The Pilgrimage of Marriage [ Le Pèlerinage de mariage ] ( RLV , #19) 8. Bitches and Pussycats , or, Peace of Ass [ Les Deux Maris et leurs deux femmes dont l'une a male tête et l'autre est tendre du cul ] ( RBM , #10) 9. Wife Swap: A Musical Comedy , or, The Taming, Pas de Deux [ Le Savatier, Marguet, Jacquet, Proserpine et l'Oste ] ( RLV , #74) 10. Husband Swap , or, Swap Meat [ Le Trocheur de maris ] ( RLV , #60) 11. Extreme Husband Makeover , or, Lost and Foundry [ Les Femmes qui font refondre leurs maris ] ( RBM , #6) 12. Marriage with a Grain of Salt [ Les Hommes qui font saller leurs femmes ] (published in Rouen, 1600) Appendix: Scholarly References to Copyrighted Materials Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments * * * * *
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-055360
Dewey Decimal
842.108
Intended Audience
College Audience
Series
The Middle Ages Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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