Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films - In Conversation With Stanley Cavell

List of contents

Prologue: The Reason and the Rhyme

1. Something from Nothing: Marriage, Conversation, and the Tragicomic Plot

2. The Thin Man of Mode

3. Whippoorwills, Gypsies, and Fantasies of the Night: Aphra Behn’s The Rover and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night

4. Luck, Be a Lady: Aphra Behn, Preston Sturges, and the Ethics of Genre

5. Playing and Not Playing: William Wycherley’s The Country Wife and Howard Hawks’s Bringing Up Baby

6. Forgotten Men: William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer and Gregory La

Cava’s My Man Godfrey

7. Provisos and Reprieves: William Congreve’s The Way of the World and Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday

8. Happily Ever After? The Awful Truth about Careless Husbands

Epilogue: Hope Springs Eternal

About the author

Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Summary

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Kraft, Elizabeth (University of Georgia) Kraft, Kraft Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367882051
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88205-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism