Download or read book Tragicomic Redemptions written by Valerie Forman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains—new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre—were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another.