Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard
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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.
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LOC Call Number
PR631 .D46 2008
ISBN
9780230604711
Publication Date
2008
Department
Department of English
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York
Recommended Citation
Demastes, William W., "Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard" (2008).