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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

262 Pages

by Routledge

262 Pages

by Routledge

262 Pages

by Routledge

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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. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents, there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped... Read more

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