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• Winner of Shortlisted for the Wallace Ferguson Book Prize (C.

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Laughing Matters is a fine work of scholarship that should be of interest to all historians of early modern France as well as cultural historians and students of the history of theater. In seven brisk chapters, Sara Beam deftly takes readers across two centuries of the Ancien Regime, from the Renaissance to the apogee of absolutist rule under Louis XIV, and along the way presents a kind of crystallized cultural history of the period. Although she focuses on theater, both popular and official, both in the streets and royal venues, both amateur and professional, she shows how theatrical history is too important to be left to the specialists. Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University

Laughing Matters is a fine work of scholarship that should be of interest to all historians of early modern France as well as cultural historians and students of the history of theater. In seven brisk chapters, Sara Beam deftly takes readers across two centuries of the Ancien Regime, from the Renaissance to the apogee of absolutist rule under Louis XIV, and along the way presents a kind of crystallized cultural history of the period. Although she focuses on theater, both popular and official, both in the streets and royal venues, both amateur and professional, she shows how theatrical history is too important to be left to the specialists. -Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University

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Sara Beam is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Victoria.

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