Comedy Matters
From Shakespeare to Stoppard
Demastes, William W.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Demastes' study is a thoughtful, cogent, and, ultimately, very useful consideration of comedy, an oft overlooked and certainly under theorized genre of dramatic literature.that it is simultaneously theoretically perceptive and lucid. The study could well be viewed as an example of contemporary theatre scholarship at its best."--Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230604714
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230604711
Dewey Decimal: 822/.05209
Library of Congress: 2007035814
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 203
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