Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

by Rudolf Dekker and Rudolf Dekker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333746740
• ISBN13: 9780333746745
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"