Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce

by Noah D. Guynn

As Noah D. Guynn observes, early French farce has been summarily dismissed as 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 historians often view it as comedy's poor relation--trite, smutty pap that served to divert the masses and to inure them to lives of subservience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251687
• ISBN13: 9780812251685
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"