The genre Romantic Comedy developed from Shakespeare's comedies in the sixteenth century. It combines elements from two previous forms of Romantic Comedies including Ancient Greece and Mediaeval. The Ancient Greece Comedies involved the story of a young man longing for a woman but who meets certain obstacles along the way. The play ends with a turn of events that enables the couple to be together. The comedy seen in these plays is the union of society. The other form, mediaeval romance appeared in both narrative and lyrical poems. Here, Romance was given a new sense of love, the passionate experience of the individual, which was different to ‘social solidarity’ that love use to mean. Romantic Comedies ever since have told their audiences that dreams of finding true love can come true. There are four romantic comedy subgenres:
Romantic comedy proper, farce, screwball comedy and the relationship story. The subgenres are determined by how love, romance and marriage are portrayed in the film and how they are related.
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