Comedy Matters

WILLIAM B. DEMASTES is Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA.

• Into the 21st Century The Organics of Comedy On The Razor's Edge Connecting Mind to Body More than Matter Matters The Orderly Disorder of Comic Vitality and Its Liberating Potential Comedy as Gift Comedy Confronts Commodity Via the Adaptive Unconscious Things Could Be Better, Things Could be Worse

"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