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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Romantic comedy
  name:
    name part: Griffiths, Trevor R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Methuen Drama
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 164 σ. ; 22 εκ.
  abstract: "'The course of true love never did run smooth'. For more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an appropriate sexual partner in the face of external opposition, or internal contradictions, has been a staple of the theatre in the form of romantic comedy. This book explores and analyses the shapes that romantic comedy has assumed in the theatre from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present. Organized chronologically to allow readers to trace the development of the form against changing societal norms, the book features a range of case studies of key works from the British tradition - including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, and from the 20th-century Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes (1912), Noel Coward's Private Lives (1930), Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1958) and Ayub Khan-Din's East is East (1996) - while containing reference to many other plays. In romantic comedy, sexual attraction is potentially disruptive of patriarchal order, since it pits individual desires against social norms and must be channelled appropriately if that order is to be maintained. At the same time, in romantic comedy the contradictions contingent on the exercise of patriarchal power must in some way accommodate the desires and needs of the lovers. Traditionally romantic comedy has been hetero-normative, however, changing social values and legal developments, particularly the wider acceptance of divorce and of homosexual attraction and marriage, have helped to redefine the forms of romantic comedy. Similarly, a recent trend towards more fluid forms of casting in which the race and gender of a character are no longer regarded as fixed has opened up many Romantic Comedies to radical reinterpretations that are be explored in this book"--
  table of contents: The Course of True Love' -- Shakespeare and Romantic Comedy -- Romantic Comedy: 1660-1895 -- Romantic Comedies of (Bad) Manners: 1895 to the present.
  target audience: general
  note: Trevor R. Griffiths.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Αγάπη στη λογοτεχνία
  subject:
    topic: Αγγλικό δράμα
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Κωμωδία
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Κωμικό, Το, στη λογοτεχνία
  classification: 822.05
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Forms of drama
  identifier: 9781350183377
  identifier: 9781350183414
  identifier: 9781350183391
  identifier: 2021038911
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250116
    record change date: 20250116123315.0
    record identifier: 22171076
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre