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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age (Hardcover)

by Rudolf Dekker (Author) "The Dutch are considered a humourless people par excellence ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (3 April 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0333746740
ISBN-13: 978-0333746745
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
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The humorous side of Dutch culture of the 17th 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 2000 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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