Hostile humor in Renaissance France / Bruce Hayes.

Author/creator Hayes, E. Bruce
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, 2020.
Descriptionxi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents The Affaire des placards and the early stages of pamphlet warfare -- Early Evangelical and Reformist comic theater -- Artus Désiré, Renaissance France's most successful, forgotten Catholic polemicist -- Geneva's polemical machine -- Abbeys of misrule on the stage -- Ronsard the pamphleteer.
Summary 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.0This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. Hayes explores this phenomenon in the context of the Catholic and Protestant conflict to reveal new insights about the society that both exploited and vilified this kind of satire.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020455173
ISBN9781644531778 (hardcover)
ISBN1644531771 (hardcover)
ISBN9781644531785 (paperback)
ISBN164453178X (paperback)
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