Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard

Demastes, W.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-07-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230604711

DOI: 10.1057/9780230612426

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 203