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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:164453178X
ISBN13:9781644531785
Release Date:April 2020
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 to Postsecondary
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