Trial by Farce

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 satire...

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Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2023
Subjects:	Medieval theater, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Middle Ages, farce, comedy, satire, parody, law, legal history, new plays, translation, translation studies, law and literature, performance studies, obscenity, humor, rhetoric or forensic rhetoric, courtroom drama, theater, theatre, theater history, medieval history, popular culture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60881
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