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

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