Rabelais's Radical Farce

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Rabelais's Radical Farce is written by E. Bruce Hayes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754665186 (ISBN 10) and 9780754665182 (ISBN 13).

By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of Rabelais' writing, and of farce's literary possibilities. He distinguishes Rabelais's use of farce from the conservative tradition, showing how the French writer used it as a vehicle to attack the status quo and to suggest alternatives to contemporary legal, educational, and theological systems.