Tuesday I read plays all day yesterday with an eye toward an upcoming class on “Battling Couples in Theatre and Film (the Comic Version).” The September course is part of Sewanee’s “Lifelong Learning” series. As the course runs for four weeks, I will teach four plays and four movies, pairing a play with a film […]
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Couples Fighting: It Must Be Love
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aphra Behn, couples comedy, Edward Albee, George Bernard Shaw, It Happened One Night, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Much Ado about Nothing, Pillow Talk, Pygmalion, Romantic Comedy, Rover, screwball comedy, Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare Comments closed
How Ephron Saved Romantic Comedies
Nora Ephron draw on Woody’s Allen’s “nervous comedies” to save romantic comedies.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Annie Hall, Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Film, Nora Ephron, Romantic Comedy, When Harry Met Sally Comments closed
