THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES
Ruth Mazo Karras, SERIES EDITOR
Edward Peters, FOUNDING EDITOR
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Immaculate
DECEPTION
and FURTHER RIBALDRIES
Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
Edited and translated by
JODY ENDERS
PENN
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
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For my students. Yet again.
Contents
Abbreviations
Many medieval farces were untitled and underdetermined. On their first or final pages, they largely read something like The Farce for [Two, Three, Four, or Five] Characters. On the opposite end of the spectrum, one finds chatty titles on the order of The New Farce of the Chambermaids who Go to Mass at 5:00 A.M. to get their Holy Water (our #7, Bro Job). I refer throughout to the present twelve playsas to those of Farce of the Fart and Holy Deadlockby the English titles that Ive bestowed upon them. Inspired, moreover, by the occasional medieval to wit (cest assavoir), I too venture alternate titles or subtitles when warranted.
For ease of reading, I favor parenthetical documentation when practical, which works in concert with the Bibliography. To facilitate consultation, I refer to frequently mentioned primary and secondary sources by the following abbreviations:
ABT | About This Translation from this book. |
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AF | Against the Friars. By Tim Rayborn. |
AG | Aspects of Genre. By Alan Knight. |
APF | Art Potique franoys (1548). By Thomas Sbillet. |
ATF | Ancien Thtre franois. 10 vols. Edited by M. Viollet le Duc. |
CFSM | Choix de farces, soties et moralits. Edited by mile Mabille. |
CM | La Comdie et les moeurs. By L. Petit de Julleville. |
CRCD | Christian Rite and Christian Drama. By O. B. Hardison Jr. |
CWFR | The Complete Works of Franois Rabelais. Translated by Donald Frame. |
DBD | Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. By Jody Enders. |
DLU | Description et analyse dun livre unique qui se trouve au Muse britannique. By Octave Joseph Delepierre. |
DNC | Dbat de la Nourrisse et de la Chamberire (RBM, #49). |
DSI | Dictionnaire thmatique et gographique des saints imaginaires, factieux. By Jacques Merceron. |
ETCF | Etudes sur le Thtre comique franais du moyen ge. By Pierre [Pietro] Toldo. |
FCMF | Five Comedies of Medieval France. Translated into English by Oscar Mandel. |
FF | The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries. Edited and translated by Jody Enders. |
FFMA | Farces franaises de la fin du Moyen ge. 4 vols. Translated into modern French by Andr Tissier. |
HD | Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries. Edited and translated by Jody Enders. |
HDTW | How to Do Things with Words. By J. L. Austin. |
HTF | Histoire du thtre franois depuis son origine jusqu prsent. By Franois Parfaict and Claude Parfaict. |
LM | Les Mystres. 2 vols. By L. Petit de Julleville. |
MBA | Murder by Accident. By Jody Enders. |
MD | Medieval Drama. Edited by David Bevington. |
MES | The Medieval European Stage. Edited by William Tydeman. |
MFP | Medieval French Plays. Translated by Richard Axton and John Stevens. |
MFST | Music in the French Secular Theater. By Howard Mayer Brown. |
MTA | Les Mdecins au thtre de lantiquit au dix-septime sicle. By Gustave Joseph Witkowski. |
MTOC | The Medieval Theater of Cruelty. By Jody Enders. |
PF | Pure Filth. By Noah Guynn. |
PP | Philosophical Papers. By J. L. Austin. |
RBM | Recueil du British Museum. Facsimile edition by Halina Lewicka. |
RC | Recueil de farces franaises indites du XVesicle. Edited by Gustave Cohen. |
Rpertoire | Rpertoire des farces franaises. By Bernard Faivre. |
RF | Recueil de farces (14501550). 13 vols. Edited by Andr Tissier. |
RFlorence | Recueil de Florence. Edited by Jelle Koopmans. |
RFMSJ | Recueil de farces, moralits et sermons joyeux. 4 vols. Edited by Antoine Le Roux de Lincy and Francisque Michel. |
RGCF | Recueil gnral et complet des fabliaux des XIIIeet XIVesicles. 6 vols. Edited by Anatole de Montaiglon and Gaston Raynaud. |
RGS | Recueil Gnral des Sotties. 3 vols. Edited by Emile Picot. |
RLV | Recueil La Vallire. Reprint entitled Manuscrit La Vallire. |
ROMD | Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama. By Jody Enders. |
RPF | Recueil de posies franoises des XVeet XVIesicles. Edited by Anatole de Montaiglon. |
RSJ | Recueil de sermons joyeux. Edited by Jelle Koopmans. |
RT | Recueil Trepperel. |
RTC | Rpertoire du thtre comique en France au moyen-age. By L. Petit de Julleville. |
RTLF | Le Recueil Trepperel: Les Farces. Edited by Eugnie Droz and Halina Lewicka. |
RTLS | Le Recueil Trepperel: Les Sotties. Edited by Eugnie Droz. |