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Paperback Hostile Humor in Renaissance France Book

ISBN: 164453178X

ISBN13: 9781644531785

Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

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In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared.

This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices...

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