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The Play of Madness A Translation of "Jeu de la Feuillee" 1997

Name: The Play of Madness: A Translation of ""Jeu de la Feuillee""
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Author: Mermier, Guy R.
ISBN: 9780820428604

by Adam D'Arras

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The Play of Madness is a thirteenth-century French medieval play, often puzzling and full of innuendoes and allusions that are not always clear to the twentieth-century public. However, thanks to the comic genius of the author, this is a play that we can enjoy and laugh at today. Most of the characters are represented in a caricatured manner for the sake of satire and their traits are as universal as they are timeless. The author-actor, master Adam, is the play's authentic eye judging objectively, and not without a certain amused kindness, the citizens of Hell, the burghers of his town - Arras in N.E. France. The Play of Madness, until now generally called Jeu de la Feuille, reminds us of some famous modern plays such as Sartre's No Exit, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, or Beckett's Waiting for Godot. So that modern readers who are not familiar with the Old French language can enjoy this fascinating medieval comic drama, we have translated the Old French text into English prose, including on each facing page the Old French text we edited from the manuscripts, using P as base with corrections from the two other manuscripts, Pb and V.

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Title The Play of Madness A Translation of "Jeu de la Feuillee"
Author Adam D'Arras
Binding unknown
Language ENG
Publisher Peter Lang Pub Inc
Publication date November 1997
Features Bibliography
ISBN 9780820428604
Themes
- Cultural Region: French

About the author

The Translator: Guy Mermier, born in Grenoble, France, is Full Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received most of his education in France, at Grenoble and Lyon, and after teaching at Amherst College, The University of Massachusetts, and Temple University, he earned his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been associated with the University of Michigan for over thirty-four years teaching Medieval French Literature and is currently Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at the University of Michigan.

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