Laughing Matters : : Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France / / Sara Beam.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Farce, Honor, and the Bounds of Satire
- 2. The Politics of Farcical Performance in Renaissance France
- 3. The Growing Cost of Laughter: Basoche and Student Performance
- 4. Farce during the Wars of Religion
- 5. Professional Farceurs in Paris, I6oo-163o
- 6. Absolutism and the Marginalization of Festive Societies
- 7. Jesuit Theater: Christian Civility and Absolutism on the Civic Stage
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index