The Female Quixote
Arabella is the daughter of an English noble, who is consumed by the romance novels she reads for fun. She believes that this is the way people fall in love, and when she finally decides it is time for her to get married, she searches for someone that will be as heroic as the male characters she reads about.
Her father, though, wants her to marry her cousin Glanville, whom she finds to be pretty boring. Glanville's friend Sir George Bellmour, though,...