Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349372553)

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: 1349372552
ISBN-13: 9781349372553
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d