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Laughing matters: farce and the making of absolutism in France

Sara Beam
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Farce, Honor, and the Bounds of Satire (page 11)
  • 2 The Politics of Farcial Performance in Renaissance France (page 44)
  • 3 The Growing Cost of Laughter: Basoche and Student Performance (page 77)
  • 4 Farce during the Wars of Religion (page 111)
  • 5 Professional Farceurs in Paris, 1600-1630 (page 142)
  • 6 Absolutism and the Marginalization of Festive Socieities (page 180)
  • 7 Jesuit Theater: Christian Civility and Absolutism on the Civic Stage (page 210)
  • Conclusion (page 241)
  • Bibliography (page 249)
  • Index (page 259)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TJ 61.4 (Dec. 2009): 664-665 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40660582
JSocH 42.2 (Winter. 2008): 513-514 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27696459
AHR 113.3 (Jun. 2008): 917-918 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30223199
SCJ 40.4 (Winter. 2009): 1240-1241 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40541250
RaR 32.4 (Fall. 2009): 126-128 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43446169
RHMC 57.4 (Oct.-Dec. 2010): 225-227 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41061547
JMH 81.2 (Jun. 2009): 416-417 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605158
CD 43.1 (Spring. 2009): 118-120 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23038042
ENHR 124.507 (Apr. 2009): 418-419 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20485594
RQ 61.4 (Winter. 2008): 1273-1275 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/255872
Citable Link
Published: 2007
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781501732379 (ebook)
  • 9780801445606 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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