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

Contents\nOn Abbreviations, Short Titles, Notes, and Bibliography\nPreface\nIntroduction\nAbout This Translation\nBrief Plot Summaries\nThe PLAYS\nActors’ Prologue\n1. The Farce of the Fart [Farce nouvelle et fort joyeuse du Pect]\n2. The Edict of Noée, or, Shut Up! It’s the Farce of the Rights of Women [Farce des Drois de la Porte Bodès]\n3. Confession Lessons, or, The Farce of the Lusty Husband Who Makes His Confession to a Woman, His Neighbor, Who Is Disguised as a Priest [Farce de celuy qui se confesse à sa voisine]\n4. The Farce of the Student Who Failed His Priest Exam because He Didn’t Know Who Was Buried in Grant’s Tomb [Farce du Clerc qui fut refusé à estre prestre]\n5. Blind Man’s Buff, or, The Farce of “The Chokester” [Farce du Goguelu]\n6. Playing Doctor, or, Taking the Plunge (The Farce of the Woman Whose Neighbor Gives Her an Enema) [Farce d’une Femme à qui son Voisin baille ung clistoire]\n7. At Cross Purposes, or, The Farce of the Three Lovers of the Cross [Farce de trois Amoureux de la Croix]\n8. Shit for Brains, or, The Party Pooper-Scooper [Farce de Tarabin- Tarabas]\n9. Monk-ey Business, or, A Marvelous New Farce for Four Actors, to Wit, the Cobbler, the Monk, the Wife, and the Gatekeeper [Le Savetier, le Moyne, la Femme, et le Portier]\n10. Getting Off on the Wrong Foot, or, Who’s Minding the Whore? for Three Actors, to Wit, the Lover Minding the Store, the Cobbler, and His Wife [Farce de Celuy qui garde les Patins]\n11. Cooch E. Whippet, or, The Farce of Martin of Cambray [Farce de Martin de Cambray]\n12. Birdbrain: A Musical Comedy? or, School Is for the Birds [Farce joyeuse de Maistre Mimin]\nAppendix: Scholarly References to Copyrighted Materials\nNotes\nBibliography\nAcknowledgments