The Pope's Mustard-Maker: A Comic Operetta in Three Acts - Softcover

Jarry, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733165622 ISBN 13: 9781733165624

Publisher: Black Scat Books, 2019

Synopsis

THE POPE'S MUSTARD-MAKER (Le Moutardier du pape) was the last work that Alfred Jarry finished, a few months before his death in 1907. It is a bawdy three-act farce loosely based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, with a huge cast and lively songs bubbling with rhymes and wordplay. Readers who know Jarry only from Ubu or his novels may be surprised that he wrote operettas, but his are fully Jarryesque, with his usual gusto for smutty jokes, legend, folklore, puns, wild invention, and popular theater. In his hands, Pope Joan becomes Jane, who runs off with her lover and disguises herself as pope. How will she pass inspection on the slotted chair? What will she do when her husband shows up? And has there ever been another production number celebrating the spiritual virtues of enemas? This is the first translation of this major work; it also includes an introduction and notes by the translator, Doug Skinner. [second printing]

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Scat Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1733165622
• ISBN 13: 9781733165624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135