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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beam, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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.