‘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. ...
‘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 face...
This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic mode expressing their ideals and shared mythologies. It analyses the fundamental dramatic characteristics of processions such as the use of banners and the place of spoken action. It shows how the confraternal drama evolved over long time frames, with frequent appeals to tradition, in ways which problematize a number of formalist assumptions about drama and its evolution. While the range of this processional activity embraces bodies as diverse as religious confraternities,...
This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic mode expressing their ideals and sha...
