The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0437 Thursday, 11 March 1999.
From: John Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 10 Mar 1999 11:18:36 -0500
Subject: Flemish Farce
My question pertains not to Shakespeare but to a Flemish farce called
"The Trick-Water Farce." It is identified as the play being performed
in Pieter Brueghel the Younger's painting called "A Village Fete," dated
1632. The scene from the farce includes a devil disguised as a monk,
seducing a woman whose jealous husband looks on, concealed in a
coachman's hod.
Is the farce extant? Does anyone know anything about it? Please reply
off list.
Thanks,
John Cox