Comedy matters: From Shakespeare to stoppard
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Abstract
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.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard
First Page
1
Last Page
203
Recommended Citation
Demastes, W. (2008). Comedy matters: From Shakespeare to stoppard. Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard, 1-203. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612426