In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile.
This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of Humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever chang.
In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France , Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared.
In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile