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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

Hardcover

General ArtGeneral European HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333746740
ISBN13: 9780333746745
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 3 2001
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch. Mainly based on a manuscript with some two thousand jokes, the lost laughter of the Golden Age is reconstructed and analyzed. Most jokes are crude and obscene, and they throw new light on attitudes towards sexuality, religion and other aspects of life.

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