Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Affaire des Placards and the Early Stages of Pamphlet Warfare 15
6. 2 Early Evangelical and Reformist Comic Theater 30
7. 3 Artus Désiré, Renaissance France’s Most Successful, Forgotten Catholic Polemicist 55
8. 4 Geneva’s Polemical Machine 92
9. 5 Abbeys of Misrule on the Stage 120
10. 6 Ronsard the Pamphleteer 133
11. Conclusion 163
12. Notes 167
13. Bibliography 199
14. Index 211