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For Jody Enders, it’s all about the rhetoric of practice and the practice of rhetoric. She is the author of four books on the rhetoric of the medieval theater: Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (1992), winner of the inaugural Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association for the best book in French and Francophone Studies; The Medieval Theatre of Cruelty (1999); Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (2002), winner of the Barnard Hewitt Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research; and Murder by Accident (2010). More recently, she has turned to the great fifteenth-century French farces, translating two dozen of the best in two books of performance-friendly literary translations destined for medievalists, historians, theater practitioners, and classic comedy lovers: The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English (2011), which was praised by none other than Terry Jones of Monty Python; and Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries: A Second Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (2017). A past editor of Theatre Survey and Guggenheim fellow, she has published numerous essays on the interplay of rhetoric, medieval literature, performance theory, and the law.