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Sara Beam - Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France - 9780801445606 - V9780801445606
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Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France

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Description for Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; AN; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564. Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France. 280 pages, 42 halftones. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; AN; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight: 564.

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 class. From the mid-sixteenth century, however, local authorities began to temper and in some cases ban such performances. Sara Beam, in revealing how theater and politics were intimately intertwined, shows how the topics we joke about in public reflect and shape larger religious and political developments.

For Beam, the eclipse of the vital tradition of satirical farce in late medieval and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801445606
SKU
V9780801445606
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sara Beam
Sara Beam is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria.

Reviews for Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France
Sara Beam rightly claims that the story of farce is a useful gauge of the evolving climate of early modern France.... Most fascinating is Beam's account of how, in the early seventeenth century, satire of a type that had decades earlier been found in the theater made its way into printed pamphlets published in the name of noted performers of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France


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