This book explores the paradoxes of theatrical comedy which emerge both in comic theater and in efforts to discern its meaning. Scott Cutler Shershow views comedy not only as the classical "mirror of
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offer
The Work and the Gift considers how working and giving are taken for opposites and revealed as each other's ghostly shadow. We ask ourselves, for instance, to work for a wage and a living, dooming our
Scholars of English literature apply the analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to the study of Shakespeare, considering such matters as the relationship of texts to social class, the historical
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Bread is an object that, throughout the myriad details of its manufacture and social existence
