'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander
in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 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. 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, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer,
Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, Noel Coward's Private Lives,
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Ayub Khan-Din's East is East
and David Eldridge's Beginning.
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