Comedy Matters

From Shakespeare to Stoppard

W. Demastes

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780230612426
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Modern Literary Criticism

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.