Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
Bruce Hayes
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.
Année:
2020
Edition:
1
Editeur::
University of Delaware Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
183
ISBN 10:
1644531798
ISBN 13:
9781644531792
Fichier:
EPUB, 812 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2020