Knight of the Burning Pestle: Bad Romance?

Of course it is--Beaumont's presentation of theater and theatergoing is positively scathing, as Whitmore tells us. On Thursday, however, I am going to ask us to consider "romance" a little more conventionally, as a threshold between desire and performance as it relates to caste, class, and "what women want." I've linked to Gaga's "Bad Romance" to get us thinking about how particularly bad romances like the one fantasized in the video, and the one fantasized by Luce (and, by implication, Nell) in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, relate to our desire for entertainment. Enjoy!