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Restoration stage comedies and Hollywood remarriage films : in conversation with Stanley Cavell / Elizabeth Kraft.
Author
Kraft, Elizabeth
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
©2017
Description
viii, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR698.C6 K73 2017
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Subject(s)
English drama
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Restoration, 1660-1700
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History and criticism
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English drama (Comedy)
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History and criticism
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Screwball comedy films
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United States
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Series
British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
Contents
Prologue: the reason and the rhyme
Something from nothing: marriage, conversation, and the tragicomic plot
The thin man of mode
Whippoorwills, gypsies, and fantasies of the night: Aphra Behn's The rover and Frank Capra's It happened one night
Luck, be a lady: Aphra Behn, Preston Sturges, and the ethics of genre
Playing and not playing: William Wycherley's The country wife and Howard Hawks's Bringing up baby
Forgotten men: William Wycherley's The plain dealer and Gregory la Cava's My man Godfrey
Provisos and reprieves: William Congreve's The way of the world and Howard Hawks's His girl friday
Happily ever after? the awful truth about careless husbands
Epilogue: hope springs eternal.
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ISBN
9781472484581 ((alk. paper))
1472484584 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2016017506
OCLC
961251590
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