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Author:

Beam, Sara

Title:

Laughing matters : farce and the making of absolutism in France / Sara Beam.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

French farces--History and criticism.
French drama--16th century--History and criticism.
French drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Theater--History--France--History--16th century.
Theater--History--France--History--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0801445604 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801445606 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76967310

LCCN:

2006101254

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)