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Shakespeare
Wrote three types of plays: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Popular Comedies: As you Like
It, The Merchant of Venice, Alls Well that Ends Well, and Twelfth Night.
Popular Histories: Henry IV part 1, Henry IV
part 2, Henry V, and Richard II.
Popular Tragedies: King
Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
Characteristics
of his plays
Comedies:
Usually involve a little comedy, but mostly involves dramatic storylines.
Usually what defines a Shakespeare play as a comedy is that it has a happy
ending, often involving marriage.
Tragedies: Shakespeare’s tragedies are very serious and have
dramatic plots that involves and ending which involves the death of main
characters.
Histories:
Shakespeare’s histories are the based on the lives of the kings.
Shakespeare
Wrote three types of plays: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Popular Comedies: As you Like
It, The Merchant of Venice, Alls Well that Ends Well, and Twelfth Night.
Popular Histories: Henry IV part 1, Henry IV
part 2, Henry V, and Richard II.
Popular Tragedies: King
Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
Characteristics
of his plays
Comedies:
Usually involve a little comedy, but mostly involves dramatic storylines.
Usually what defines a Shakespeare play as a comedy is that it has a happy
ending, often involving marriage.
Tragedies: Shakespeare’s tragedies are very serious and have
dramatic plots that involves and ending which involves the death of main
characters.
Histories:
Shakespeare’s histories are the based on the lives of the kings.