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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007. |
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| Retention: | digitized |
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