Comedy matters from Shakespeare to Stoppard /

"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 cultu...

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Main Author: Demastes, William W.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Physical Description: 203 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
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