Comedy A Shakespearean comedy was one with mythical overtones and exaggerated plots rather than being funny. This was too make the play different from history's and tragedy's.A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest were comedy plays.
History A Shakespearean history play were all about English kings and their lives.In these plays they had a variety of action,mood,feeling,tone and structure among them and within the texts individually.Richard III and Henry V were history plays.
Tragedy A Shakespearean tragedy was all about supernatural elements (witches,ghosts), tragic error like some disorder that has been committed against the laws if nature and needs to be corrected,conflict with country's or with the hero himself,big revenge with the heros and friends and the best bit of all the sad ending witch could be a death in the family or destruction of a famous building. Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet were both tragedy plays.
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ReplyDeleteA Shakespearean comedy was one with mythical overtones and exaggerated plots rather than being funny. This was too make the play different from history's and tragedy's.A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest were comedy plays.
History
A Shakespearean history play were all about English kings and their lives.In these plays they had a variety of action,mood,feeling,tone and structure among them and within the texts individually.Richard III and Henry V were history plays.
Tragedy
A Shakespearean tragedy was all about supernatural elements (witches,ghosts),
tragic error like some disorder that has been committed against the laws if nature and needs to be corrected,conflict with country's or with the hero himself,big revenge with the heros and friends and the best bit of all the sad ending witch could be a death in the family or destruction of a famous building. Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet were both tragedy plays.
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