Hostile Humor in Renaissance France - Softcover

Bruce Hayes (author)

 
9781644531785: Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
Softcover
ISBN 10: 164453178X ISBN 13: 9781644531785
Publisher: University of Delaware Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Bruce Hayes is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
164453178X
ISBN 13 
9781644531785
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224

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