Wk 4- The Romances worksheet. Literature & Language Coursework

WK 4- The Romances Worksheet
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Romantic Love
Part 1
In the matrix below, compare the way romantic love is treated in comedies, tragedies, and romances of Shakespeares plays. Provide a brief description for how each theme is treated in the different types of plays.
Themes

Comedies

Tragedies

Romances

Barriers to fulfillment of desire

Love in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream shows accomplishment of desire.

Shakespeare has demonstrated in Henry V the challenges that people are face with and that make it hard for them to acquire happiness.

Throughout in the play, The Tempest, Prospero’s plan is to have facilitate a romantic relationship between Ferdinand and Miranda.

Conventions of courtship

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theseus arranges for marriage with Hippolyta and had to ask her family so that they could be together.

Courtship in Henry V is similar to A Midsummer Night’s Dream where the man is required to obtain approval from the woman’s family.

Similarly, in The Tempest, the man also has to get approval from the girl’s family before marriage.

Treatment of sex

As demonstrated by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream people fall for the people they want regardless of the underlying circumstances.

When Henry for Katharine and tells her that together they will rule England and France and will have a son then kisses her lips.

Shakespeare demonstrate that sex in The Tempest is the affirmation of marriage.

Challenges to romantic love

In A Midsummer Night’s ...