Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films

In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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by Elizabeth Kraft

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Comedy/Humor

Keywords

comedy, Stanley Cavell, screwball

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Routledge

1st publishing

2017

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 262 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-367-88205-1

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Book Presentation:
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 out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant, Millamant and Mirabell, and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon, Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars.

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

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