Romantic Comedy: A Definition

A narrative whose events humorously test social values, patterns of behavior, and institutions, often exposing cultural tensions and contradictions; ultimately, the narrative enacts reconciliation and resolution through a literal and symbolic pursuit of marriage and offspring (“regeneration”).

Pastoral:

A literary mode in which speakers, frequently shepherds, comment on the virtues of rural existence in contrast to urban and courtly culture; finds in the leisure of shepherds an element of freedom and independence from which to survey and critique society.