Free Download John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, "Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce" English | 2017 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 1583676813, 1583676805 | EPUB | 1,4 mb Remember that metaphor about the frog that slowly cooks to death in the pot of increasingly warm water? Leftists have used it for years to describe how people can accept dwindling health care, fading job opportunities, eroding racial and gender equality-as long as the loss occurs gradually. Now, with Donald Trump having slouched off to Washington, most of the mainstream media are working overtime to convince us that we can still stand the heat. Leave it to John Bellamy Foster, one of the world's outstanding radical scholars, to expose Trump for who and what he is: a neo-fascist. Just at the boiling point, Foster offers us cool logic to comprehend the system that created Trump's moral and political emergency-and to resist it. "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English By Jody Enders (transl.) 2011 | 494 Pages | ISBN: 0812243234 | PDF | 3 MB Edited and translated by Jody Enders.Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? 'Bien sûr'. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met the scatological in popular performances presented by roving troupes in public squares that skewered sex, politics, and religion. For centuries, the scripts for these outrageous, anonymously written shows were available only in French editions gathered from scattered print and manuscript sources. Now prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest of these farces to contemporary English-speaking audiences in '"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries'. Enders's translation captures the full richness of the colorful characters, irreverent humor, and over-the-top Descriptionlines, all in a refreshingly uncensored American vernacular.Those who have never heard the one about the Cobbler, the Monk, the Wife, and the Gatekeeper should prepare to be shocked and entertained. '"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries' is populated by hilarious characters high and low. For medievalists, theater practitioners, and classic comedy lovers alike, Enders provides a wealth of information about the plays and their history. Helpful details abound for each play about Description, character development, sets, staging, costumes, and props. This performance-friendly collection offers in-depth guidance to actors, directors, dramaturges, teachers, and their students.'"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries' puts fifteenth-century French farce in its rightful place alongside Chaucer, Shakespeare, commedia dell'arte, and Molière-not to mention Monty Python. 'Vive la Farce!' |