On Abbreviations Short Titles, Notes, and Bibliography
Preface
Introduction
-History, Development, and the Actors of the Basoche
-Performance and Performance Records
-The Question of Genre
About This Translation
-Editions and Printed Sources
-Critical Apparatus
-Stage Directions
-Prose, Verse, and Music
-Repetition and Repetitiveness
-Language and Style
Brief Plot Summaries
THE PLAYS
Actors' Prologue
1. The Farce of the Fart [Farce nouvelle et fort joyeuse du Pect]
2. The Edict of NoÉe, or, Shut Up! It's the Farce of the Rights of Women [Farce des Drois de la Porte BodÈs]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. Blind Man's Buff, or, The Farce of "The Chokester" [Farce du Goguelu]
6. 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]
7. At Cross Purposes, or, The Farce of the Three Lovers of the Cross [Farce de trois Amoureux de la Croix]
8. Shit for Brains, or, The Party Pooper-Scooper [Farce de Tarabin-Tarabas]
9. 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]
10. 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]
11. Cooch E. Whippet, or, The Farce of Martin of Cambray [Farce de Martin de Cambray]
12. Birdbrain: A Musical Comedy? or, School Is for the Birds [Farce joyeuse de Maistre Mimin]
Appendix: Scholarly References to Copyrighted Materials
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
