main conventions

[green_giant]

What are the main conventions of a romantic comedy? (i'm talking shakespeare e.g midsummers nights dream)

[Drusilla]

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/rjregan/rrScom.htm

I found this in Wikipedia, just google Shakespearian comedy for the introduction for the above chart.

[mike b]

'The good end happily and the bad unhappily - that is what fiction means'...(one of Oscar's)

[mycatis]

I would think missunderstanding, mistaken identities etc. Is that what you meant?

[rivington]

In Shakespearian times there were only two crteria. A comedy ended in a marriage and a tragedy in a death. The romance was incidental.