Pure Filth : : Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce / / Noah D. Guynn.
As Noah D. Guynn observes, early French farce has been summarily dismissed as pure filth for centuries. Renaissance humanists, classical moralists, and Enlightenment philosophes belittled it as an embarrassing reminder of the vulgarity of medieval popular culture. Modern literary critics and theater...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Sources
- Introduction. The Many Faces of Farce
- Chapter 1. The Wisdom of Farts: Ethics and Politics, Farce and Festive Comedy
- Chapter 2. A Justice to Come: Messianism and Eschatology in Maistre Pierre Pathelin
- Chapter 3. Sacraments and Scatology, Faith and Doubt: Andrieu de La Vigne’s Mystère de Saint Martin and Its Farces
- Chapter 4. Making History: Misbehaved Women, Well-Behaved Women, and the Sexual Politics of Farce
- Afterword. Against Protoforms
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments