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Author Hayes, E. Bruce, author.

Title Hostile humor in Renaissance France / Bruce Hayes.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. This 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.
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Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 · The Affaire des Placards and the Early Stages of Pamphlet Warfare -- 2 · Early Evangelical and Reformist Comic Theater -- 3 · Artus Désiré, Renaissance France's Most Successful, Forgotten Catholic Polemicist -- 4 · Geneva's Polemical Machine -- 5 · Abbeys of Misrule on the Stage -- 6 · Ronsard the Pamphleteer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subject French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Wit and humor.
Renaissance -- France.
France.
Religious satire, French -- History and criticism.
Religious satire, French.
Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 9781644531792 (electronic book)
1644531798 (electronic book)
Music No. EB00802945 Recorded Books