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	§12. His Comedies of Manners and Romantic Comedies. VIII. Ford and Shirley. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. ...
		The comedy of Shirley falls into two main classes, the comedy of manners and romantic comedy, the latter sometimes described in the early editions as tragicomedy.
		Romantic interest is entirely subordinated to the exposing of a variety of typical humbugs and fraudulent adventurers.
		The low comedy is supplied by a young coward Bertholdi, who seeks to ingratiate himself with the gallants by offering to each in turn the hand of his widowed mother, a lady of wit and independence.
	www.bartleby.com /216/0812.html (2585 words)

	Romantic Comedies and Pastorals
		Romantic comedy is well illustrated in the woodland scenes of Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, in As You Like It and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare.
		Greene also wrote The Pleasant Comedie of Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester; with the love of William the Conqueror, produced in 1589 and 1591.
		The influence of the species is apparent, however, not only in the minor comedies, but especially in the pleasant garden and rural scenes which enliven the comedies of the greatest of the Elizabethans.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/bellinger003.html (422 words)

	The five deadly sins of romantic comedies. - By Lisa Levy - Slate Magazine
		America's Sweethearts, billed as an updated screwball romantic comedy, asks the audience to believe that Julia Roberts (fat suit or not) is pining away for John Cusack, when his character has nothing tangible or otherwise to offer besides the somewhat kinky fact that he was once married to her prettier sister.
		The one advantage that the old romantic comedies have over the new ones is that they're usually shorter (as most movies were then).
		I adore romantic comedies both old and new, in fact, my favorites in recent years was Keeping the Faith, or Prelude to a Kiss and old favorites would be Sullivan's Travels, Barefoot in the Park, or Born Yesterday (the original).
	www.slate.com /?id=2060143 (1612 words)

	templateeliz
		Shakespeare's comedies often use puns, metaphors, and insults to provoke "thoughtful laughter." The action is often strained by artificiality, especially elaborate and contrived endings.
		The comedies themselves can be sub-categorized as tragicomedies, romantic comedies, comedies of justice, and simple entertaining comedies with good wholesome fun.
		The roots of English comedies are in humor rather than in wit, and Shakespeare followed this unacademic tradition, according to the authors.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/Shakcomedies.html (1058 words)

	Romantic comedies
		Romantic comedy films (sometimes shortened to "ro-co"s or "rom-com"s) are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films.
		The basic format of a romantic comedy predates the cinema by centuries.
		Romantic comedy films are sometimes pejoratively described as "chick flicks."
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Romantic-comedies.wikipedia (226 words)

	Hong Kong Romantic comedies
		Romantic comedy is then the temporary solution found by local producers.
		After a shot, reverse shot pattern on slow motion with a nice melody, the outcome of this largely parodied romantic cliché of love at first sight, is a woman screaming in pain.
		Last economic resort of the HK film industry, the romantic comedy hasn't found a true subversive and bold director able to bend the rules of the genre.
	hkcinemagic.ifrance.com /siteanglais/articles/aromanticcomedies.htm (1382 words)

	Salon \| Is this as good as it gets?
		But the new romantic comedies take such care to sew everything up so neatly -- to spell out in neon-bright letters that the lovers are so perfect for each other that nothing could ever go wrong -- that they seem like a grappling insistence of love's permanence instead of a kiss for good luck.
		The best romantic comedies ever made were built on a dependable structure: Boy and girl meet, hate each other and spend the rest of the picture discovering they're perfect for each other.
		But even mainstream romantic comedies, with the right kind of writing and some creative casting, could be so much sharper, smarter and funnier -- not to mention more romantic -- than they are.
	www.salon.com /ent/feature/1999/06/09/romantic/print.html (2211 words)

	Untitled Document
		More important to you as a screenwriter, director or producer, the best romantic comedies are not only funny, sexy and entertaining, they provide you with a wonderful opportunity for exploring deeper levels of inner conflict, character growth and theme.
		Using the top-grossing romantic comedies of all time as examples, I want to explore the unique ways the screenplays for these movies use principles of story, structure and character growth to elicit emotion and enlighten the audience.
		The plots of the most successful romantic comedies of all time involve unemployment, disease, prostitution, physical abuse, physical deformity, humiliation, ridicule, the loss of one's children, attempted assassination, suicide and death.
	www.screenplaymastery.com /RomanticComedies.htm (2656 words)

	The Art of the Romantic Comedy, an essay by Bill Johnson
		Further, the romantic comedy often offers an experience of shared intimacy to couples -- married, dating, old, young, life-hardened -- that is fulfilling and pleasurable, and difficult to initiate or sustain for some people.
		Well told romantic comedies are also, in the main, very observant about the humor and mores of their time.
		The writer of the romantic comedy, then, would be served by understanding not just stories popular in the past, but understanding what makes their material fresh and new.
	www.storyispromise.com /wromance.htm (3181 words)

	Professor's book examines romantic vs. screwball comedies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Romantic comedies have incorporated intense issues such as a person losing a spouse and then looking for love as was found in 'Sleepless in Seattle,'" he said.
		Comedy films were first popularized during the Great Depression when the nation needed to forget the horrific times, Gehring said.
		Romantic comedies have flaky supporting characters while screwball movies are filled with unbelievable eccentrics.
	www.bsu.edu /news/article/0,1370,-1019-8468,00.html (390 words)

	Romantic Comedies Make A Comeback
		Slapstick comedies fill the theater marquees in one period, animated kid flicks the next.
		However, the latest flourish of romantic comedies seems to have sprung from the 1992 blockbuster hit, Sleepless in Seattle*, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
		I believe that romantic comedies are eternally successful because they appeal to the basic instinct in every human, the search for belonging to someone else.
	www.dove.org /columns/1995/column9506.htm (639 words)

	Love hurts: Canadian romantic comedy TAKE ONE - Find Articles
		The romantic comedy hit its creative peak in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s with the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Preston Sturges and the Astaire-Rogers romances.
		The key Canadian romantic comedies came in the 1980s, but from the outset they defined themselves in opposition to their American cousins, rewriting or reversing the course they introduced.
		Each of the romantic comedies made in the last two years grapples with this tradition, and their inability or refusal to accept the premises of American romantic comedy--then and now.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_23/ai_30001087 (931 words)

	Romance Films
		Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances (often romantic dramas) face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love.
		Two of the earliest romantic (or quasi-erotic) screen couples in the silent era were the seductively-beautiful, beguiling and bewitching Greta Garbo and her handsome screen counterpart John Gilbert, two MGM stars who first appeared together in Flesh and the Devil (1927) with three artistically-lit love scenes.
		The romantic teaming of Gilbert and Garbo, and the vampishness of Theda Bara was replaced by the arrival of new, sexy and romantic lead superstars at MGM in the 1930s, typified by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford.
	www.filmsite.org /romancefilms.html (2493 words)

	Writers Store: Romantic Comedy Writing Secrets by William 'Bill' Mernit
		If creating a successful romantic comedy really was as easy as plugging a couple of stars into a standard boy-meets-girl, boy-loses- girl, boy-gets-girl structure, the market would be glutted with genuinely funny romantic comedies.
		Highfalutin' as it may sound, the romantic comedies that endure -- and strike a real chord with their audiences -- are the ones that explore universal issues.
		Your romantic comedy should be posing a question, or poking at a truth, that you, the writer, are passionately invested in exploring.
	www.writersstore.com /article.php?articles_id=67 (1681 words)

	Sequential Tart: Lookin' For Love - Finding Romantic Comedies in Manga (vol VII/iss 2/February 2004)
		For our purposes, romantic comedies are defined as a sub-genre of romance wherein the secondary function is situational humor involving a single female protagonist and a source of conflict.
		Within romantic comedies, it is the female protagonist that is the lynchpin to the entire situation.
		For the typical romantic comedy manga, the complexity of plots and the focus on the challenges within and among character relationships are its driving forces.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/feb04/art_0204_6.shtml (2639 words)

	identifications in romantic comedies
		Romantic comedies provide a fruitful entry point, relying as they do on slipping identifications, discourses of assimilation, and a wide range of musical materials.
		In the brief survey of a few romantic comedies from the 1990s, I have attempted to show that the associations I identified in Hearing film between composed scores and assimilating identifications, on the one hand, and compiled scores and affiliating identifications on the other, are only tendencies.
		In these romantic comedies about ethnicity and separation, songs both block and enable varying kinds of separation and belonging in the characters' communities and families, thereby conditioning different patterns of identification on the part of the films' perceivers.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr_18/AKfr18a.html (3561 words)

	Favorite Romantic Movies: Romantic Comedies, Wedding Movies
		There's nothing to put the two of you in a loving frame of mind better than a romantic movie, a film where the chemistry between the stars makes the two of you feel that the bond between you is that much closer.
		Romantic movie lovers are very familiar with Somewhere in Time, starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve.
		Romeo and Juliet by Grace Sydney Two young dreamers from rival families find in each others arms a haven from the chaos which surrounds them, but are forced by fate to pay the ultimate price for their love in Franco Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet.
	www.lovetripper.com /channels/reel-love.html (776 words)

	H'w'd's in love with romantic comedies - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
		But for studio execs, separating the good material from the bad, and the task of seeing a trenchant romantic comedy through the development gantlet with its teeth intact, is no mean feat.
		Novelist Jane Heller, who has had four of her novels -- all romantic comedies -- optioned in the last 12 months, says the genre works best when it isn't reducible to that most cliched of questions, "Will he or won't he?"
		That may be one reason that romantic comedy is flourishing on television.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117879252.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 (652 words)

	Epinions.com - My Ten Favourite Romantic Comedies
		Jack Nickelson is superb as an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) sufferer in this very unusual romantic comedy.
		The only fl and white film in my list – my defence for this is that, while I have seen a lot of great B&W romantic comedies, I saw most of them too long ago to really remember.
		The first film released in 2007 that I saw turned out to be a wonderful romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant as a has-been pop star and Drew Barrymore as the woman who comes to look after his plants but just happens to become his lyricist.
	www.epinions.com /content_3596001412 (974 words)

	Comedy Films
		Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative.
		Comedies have also been classified in various subgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out comedy.
		This is primitive and universal comedy with broad, aggressive, physical, and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags (e.g., a custard pie in the face, collapsing houses, a fall in the ocean, a loss of trousers or skirts, runaway crashing cars, people chases, etc).
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html (1641 words)

	Top 20 Romantic Comedies
		Finally a romantic comedy about what it is really like to be a thirty-something single female in a modern world.
		Bridget Jones' Diary is the romantic comedy in reverse: girl gets boy, girl loses boy, girl realizes its true love running through the snow barefoot in her underwear.
		What we liked best about this romantic comedy is it’s insight into some of the ridiculous things teens due to look cool and how, even the teens think it’s crazy.
	www.couplescompany.com /Features/CT/Movies/Comedy2.asp (1629 words)

	Drew Barrymore not yet done with romantic comedies!
		Washington, Feb 15(ANI): Charlie's Angels star Drew Barrymore has rebuffed claims she's done with romantic comedies, revealing she is working on a third film with her The Wedding Singer co-star Adam Sandler.
		The actress claims her words got "twisted" in a recent interview when she suggested she's had enough of the lightweight comedies she's famous for, insisting it's a genre she absolutely loves.
		I love doing them (romantic comedies) and, in fact, Adam and I just read a script recently that we're thinking about.
	www.dailyindia.com /show/114907.php/Drew-Barrymore-not-yet-done-with-romantic-comedies! (195 words)

	Dick Staub: Movies - Hitch & Fever Pitch: Sex & The Fine Line of Romantic Comedies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Storytellers have always walked the line on how to balance romance and physical passion (Shakepseare is an obvious example in classic dramtic literature.) In my opinion romantic comedies are strengthened when they spend their time and energy developing the characters and their maturing romance without introducing sex or introducing it in an illusory, subtle way.
		In each of the romantic comedies we’ve mentioned the central characters are in their 20’s (or 30’s), yet the filmmaker wants to appeal to teenagers along with the film’s more natural connection to those in their 20’s and 30’s.
		Most filmmakers cannot conceive of a dating scene of twenty-year olds that does not involve sex as an early step in a progressing relationship, so they feel their characters MUST be sexually active to seem authentic—so they include the sex at the risk of offending teens (and their parents).
	www.dickstaub.com /culturewatch.php?record_id=843 (785 words)

	TOP 20 Romantic Comedies For Couples
		Romantic Comedies seem even harder to pull off and we had to dig deep to find really good movies.
		A romantic comedy is about the relationship between a man and a woman and generally follows the boy gets girl; boy loses girl, boy gets girl back plotline.
		Half the staff said, "Something About Mary isn't a romantic comedy!" The other half insisted it is. Once we dissected the script we confirmed this movie is in fact a classic romantic comedy storyline and our top pick.
	www.couplescompany.com /Features/CT/Movies/Comedy.htm (1472 words)

	How to Choose a Great Romantic Comedy - eHow.com
		Romantic comedies take situations that would otherwise be sad or boring and make them absurd and funny.
		Romantic comedies typically have their own area or will be found as a subcategory of comedy.
		If you're seeing a romantic comedy on a date, try to find one that balances the romance with other elements.
	www.ehow.com /how_5523_choose-great-romantic.html (376 words)

	romantic comedy - All About France (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you are looking for a reason to snuggle close together on the sofa, watch one of these romantic comedies.
		I'd like to review romantic comedies--old, new and classic--rating them on a 1 to 5 hearts basis.
		The romantic comedy has long been a staple of American films.
	www.ambafrance-ecu.org /romantic-comedy.html (240 words)

	London Theatre Guide, Show information, musical comedy play
		Romantic musical based on Gaston Leroux's gothic novel of life beneath the haunted stage of the Paris Opera.
		Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, SPAMALOT is the new Broadway musical directed by Mike Nichols, with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.
		Boeing-Boeing is a side-splitting farcical comedy which originally opened in London in the mid-1960s, and held the World Record for being the longest running comedy in London's West End, playing over 2,000 performances.
	www.londontheatrebookings.com /musical,comedy,play.html (1604 words)

	Romantic Comedy - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton do their best, but can't redeem this irritatingly moralistic romantic comedy.
		Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 masterpiece, the most sophisticated of all American romantic comedies, resurfaces at last, both on DVD and (yes!) on the big screen.
		This English charmer is actually funny and romantic -- and it won't make men run out of the theater.
	dir.salon.com /topics/romantic_comedy (224 words)

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