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Fools' Plays: A Study of Satire in the Sottie

Fools' Plays: A Study of Satire in the Sottie

Arden, Heather

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Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 052115894X
ISBN13: 9780521158947
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 14 2011
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The sottie was a short, comical play which flourished in France from about 1440 to 1560. Although a vital part of late medieval popular culture, this dramatic genre has received scant critical attention. In this study, Dr Arden adds to our understanding of the sottie by examining in detail the subjects satirised in the plays, the dramatic structure underlying this satire, the attitudes expressed by the plays, and their social function in late medieval France. Through an approach combining critical readings of the texts with historical study of class structure and its evolution in this period, she offers a fresh interpretation of a remarkable type of satire. In addition to analysing the undercurrent of class conflict in late medieval theatre, Dr Arden clarifies lower-class values of the period and suggests a reason for the widespread fascination with folly and the fool in the late Middle Ages.

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