Comedy....
A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. (e.g. Measure for Measure, All is Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night)
Tragedy....
A Shakespearean tragedy is the polar opposite of a comedy; it "...exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, or even the ironic action of their virtues, or through the nature of fate, destiny, or the human condition to suffer, fail, and die...." In other words, it is a drama with an unhappy ending. (e.g. Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet)
History....
The histories were those plays based on the lives of English Kings. Therefore they can be more accurately called the "English history plays," a less common designation. (e.g. King John, Richard II, Henry IV)
Best description yet Nora! Well done. :)
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