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Auteur(s) : Griffiths, Trevor (1935-2024). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Romantic comedy [Texte imprimé] / Trevor R. Griffiths
Publication : London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xix-164 p.) : ill. ; 20 cm
Collection : Forms of drama
Lien à la collection : Forms of drama
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index"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"
Sujet(s) : Théâtre (genre littéraire) anglais Amour -- Dans la littérature Comique (littérature)
Indice(s) Dewey : 822.052 309 (23e éd.) = Comédie de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350183377. - ISBN 1350183377. - ISBN 9781350183414. - ISBN 1350183415. - ISBN 9781350183391 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350183384 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46993619h
Notice n° : FRBNF46993619 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Machine generated contents note:Contexts -- ; Greek and Roman Comedy -- ; Menander -- ; Plautus and Terence -- ; English Romantic Comedy -- ; Why comedy? -- ; Comedies of Manners -- ; The nineteenth century -- ; Romantic Comedy against the grain -- ; Expanding the form -- ; 1.. Shakespeare and Romantic Comedy -- ; Contexts -- ; A Midsummer Night's Dream -- ; Twelfth Night -- ; 2.. Romantic Comedy: 1660-1895 -- ; Contexts -- ; The Country Wife and The Way of the World -- ; A Bold Stroke for a Wife -- ; She Stoops to Conquer -- ; London Assurance -- ; The Importance of Being Earnest -- ; 3.. Romantic Comedies of (Bad) Manners: 1912 to the present -- ; Contexts -- ; Hindle Wakes -- ; Hobson's Choice -- ; Private Lives -- ; A Taste of Honey -- ; Stags and Hens -- ; Beautiful Thing -- ; East Is East -- ; Meet the Mukherjees -- ; Beginning.