Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

by Bruce Hayes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164453178X
• ISBN13: 9781644531785
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"