Playing the fool
Subtitle: subversive laughter in troubled times
By: Ralph Lerner.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226473154
Subjects: More, Thomas, -- Sir, Saint, -- 1478-1535 -- Language; Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626 -- Language; Burton, Robert, -- 1577-1640 -- Language; Bayle, Pierre, -- 1647-1706 -- Language; Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Language; Gibbon, Edward, -- 1737-1794 -- Language; Political satire -- History and criticism; Fools and jesters -- Political aspects; Laughter -- Political aspects; Political science -- Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.