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Being named\"romantic comedies,\"Shakespeare's can be easily and convenientlydistinguished from the counterblasts with which,in the name of theclassical comedians,Ben Jonson retaliated on them.Why not,there-fore,let well alone,and continue to talk of Shakespeare's romanticcomedies,especially as“romantic”is so variable and vague in itsconnotation that it can be used to mean almost anything which any-body may take Shakespeare's comedies to be.  \nMoreover,there can hardly be any doubt that Shakespeare'saudience clamorously demanded that their comedies should includecertain features which in any sense of the word must be calledromantic,features which enter comedy for the first time in Shakespeare'sday,features which more than any others bear the stamp of theimaginative and emotional fashion of his generation.  \nHis Comedy of Errors provides an excellent clue to the taste ofhis times.He took the main tale of it from Latin comedy,from  \nA lecture delivered in the John Rylands Library on the 8th January,1930.  \nPlautus.But he made strange additions.His Plautine material isin the boisterous,gross,realistic pattern of Latin comedy:a virago ofa wife,a thick-skinned husband,and a common courtesan deal witheach other in the coarser way of earthy traficking.But into thisHogarthian group Shakespeare slips one or two figures who belong toanother world:an old man weighed down by the grief of many yearsfruitless search for the wife and son torn from him by shipwreck,anda gentle-hearted girl whose lips speak in the sweet new style singersand sonneteers were consecrating to lovers and to love-making.  \nSuch incongruously intrusive figures can only have gained theirentry by being the sort of people Shakespeare's public wanted.Theysurround a Dutch interior with a tale of love and of adventure;andwhat is a romance but a tale of love and adventure,of prouesse andcourtesie?That is the justification for calling the Elizabethan age aromantic age.Shakespeare and his fellows were romantic in the strictsense that they clamoured for fuller draughts of that spirit of romanticismwhich the Middle Ages had frst discovered and revealed in theirtales of chivalry and knight-errantry.To them,a lover and his lasswere the most engrossing of God's creatures:their comedies asJonson contemptuously said,had to be of a duke in love with acountess,the countess to be in love with the duke’s son,and the sonto love the lady's waiting-maid,with other such cross-wooing.Forwooing was the most exciting of man's emotional experiences;andtuned to that key he eagerly responded to those other phases ofexistence wherein the stress of exceptional circumstances arousedstranger stirrings of the passionate life.The plot of the Comedy ofEerors is Roman,c","cbCaijSrTpYlmeH0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijSrTpYlmeH0","pdf",2413164,36,"English","# ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY\n## Romantic comedies and the Elizabethan atmosphere\n## Romantic features demanded by Shakespeare’s audiences\n## Comedy of Errors as a clue to contemporary taste\n## From Latin realism to romantic sentiment\n## Romantic comedy as the comedy of love","[{\"question\":\"Why does the lecture claim that “romantic comedies” fits Shakespeare’s comedies?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that Shakespeare’s comedies include romantic features tied to love, wooing, and emotionally charged circumstances that match Elizabethan literary atmosphere and audience expectations.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Charlton explain Shakespeare’s use of Latin material in the Comedy of Errors?\",\"answer\":\"He says Shakespeare took the main tale from Latin comedy but made “strange additions,” inserting characters whose grief and gentle sentiment reflect romance rather than purely classical realism.\"},{\"question\":\"What definition of romantic comedy does the lecture emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"Romantic comedy is presented as pre-eminently the comedy of love, specifically distinguished by its occupation with wooing and its response to stresses that stir passionate life.\"}]","ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY | PDF",1790604093,55]