Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230604711)

Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the broadest sense of the term.

Author: W. Demastes
ISBN-10: 0230604714
ISBN-13: 9780230604711
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 203
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.95w x 0.66d