Hostile Humor in Renaissance France [1 ed.] 9781644531792, 9781644531778

In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively ho

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Hostile Humor in Renaissance France [1 ed.]
9781644531792, 9781644531778

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