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Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard
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ISBN10: 0230604714
ISBN13: 9780230604711
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230604711
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
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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