Laughing Matters : Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France /
Bawdy satirical plays-many starring law clerks and seminarians-savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France. The Church and the royal court tolerated-and even commissioned-such performances, the audiences for which included men and women from every social c...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Farce, honor, and the bounds of satire
- The politics of farcical performance in Renaissance France
- The growing cost of laughter : Basoche and student performance
- Farce during the wars of religion
- Professional farceurs in Paris, 1600-1630
- Absolutism and the marginalization of festive societies
- Jesuit theater : Christian civility and absolutism on the civic stage.