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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794690903321

Autore

Hayes E. Bruce

Titolo

Hostile humor in Renaissance France / / Bruce Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, Delaware : , : University of Delaware Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64453-179-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Disciplina

840.9003

Soggetti

French literature - 16th century - History and criticism

Renaissance - France

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

France

Frankreich

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.