{"product_id":"9781350183414-romantic-comedy","title":"Romantic Comedy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ – so says Lysander in \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical staple. This book explores the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present. Changing social values have helped to redefine the genre’s traditional hetero-normativity, while the recent trend towards more fluid casting has opened up many romantic comedies to radical reinterpretations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Susanna Centlivre’s \u003ci\u003eA Bold Stroke for a Wife, \u003c\/i\u003eOliver Goldsmith’s \u003ci\u003eShe Stoops to Conquer,\u003c\/i\u003e Stanley Houghton’s \u003ci\u003eHindle Wakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Noël Coward’s \u003ci\u003ePrivate Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Shelagh Delaney’s \u003ci\u003eA Taste of Honey\u003c\/i\u003e, Ayub Khan-Din’s \u003ci\u003eEast is East\u003c\/i\u003e and David Eldridge’s \u003ci\u003eBeginning\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55899629289846,"sku":"9781350183414","price":28.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35269669_177d2776-1063-44c4-b2bc-fa3cb286d19d.jpg?v=1752198706","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350183414-romantic-comedy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}