Shakespeare’s plays are traditionally divided into the three categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and tragedies.

• Comedy.
• Tragedy.
• Historical.
• Musical theatre.
• Theatre of Cruelty.
• Theatre of the Absurd.
• Terminology.
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It’s possible to see common themes that appear in all the plays. The four most prominent are: appearance and reality; change; order and disorder; and conflict. Those were matters that deeply affected Shakespeare as he walked about and observed the world around him.

The plays are usually divided into four groups and illustrate the broad scope of Elizabethan theatre in general. These categories are: comedies, romances, histories, and tragedies.

The world’s most famous theaters and opera houses

• The Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens.
• The Comedie-Francaise in Paris.
• The Burgtheater in Vienna.
• The Semperoper in Dresden.
• The Royal Opera House in London.
• The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
• The Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
• The Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

ANSWER. Sad play. TRAGEDY. A funny and sad play. TRAGICOMEDY.

10 Best Tragic Plays

• #10 – ‘Night Mother. There are very few plays that are as tragic, direct and, persuasive as Marsha Norman’s play, ‘Night Mother’.
• #9 – Romeo and Juliet.
• #7 – Death of a Salesman.
• #5 – Medea.
• #4 – The Laramie Project.
• #3 – Long Day’s Journey into Night.
• #1 – Bent.

Tragedy. A type of drama that ends in catastrophe. It is a serious play with an unhappy ending -death usually occurs for important characters.

Common usage of tragedy refers to any story with a sad ending, whereas to be an Aristotelian tragedy the story must fit the set of requirements as laid out by Poetics.

It is common for the main character in a tragedy to have what is called a tragic flaw. Tragedies have a heartbreaking ending. While many tragic stories end in death, a tragic story does not always have to end in death.

These plays can be divided into four types:

• Tragedies – these plays focus on a tragic hero (or couple, as in Romeo and Juliet) whose downfall is brought about through weakness or misfortune of some kind.
• Comedies – this kind of play involves humour and often confusion, disguise,mistaken identity etc.

The Tempest

King Lear

Shakespeare’s plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays—as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, or comedy—is a matter of scholarly debate.

Shakespeare’s Five Act Structure. When you read a Shakespeare play you’ll probably notice that it’s divided into acts and scenes – and always has a five act structure. And yet all Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, and in fact, most plays all the way up to and including the 20th century are structured in five acts.

Shakespeare’s playing company, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later the King’s Men) also performed at the Blackfriars theatre, an indoor theatre where audience members sat on benches to see performances. Today, people from around the world attend Shakespeare’s plays in parks, theatres and cinemas.

Troilus and Cressida

The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare’s most controversial play, giving us as it does a portrait of a bloodthirsty moneylender, Shylock, whose consuming lust for barbaric revenge on the merchant Antonio, indeed, whose very essence, springs from the fact that he is Jewish – Jewish and thus a despised outsider in the …

Shakespeare was a skilled actor, but he was an even greater poet and playwright. He had an enormous talent for expressing thoughts and feelings in memorable ways. His plays show that he had a deep understanding of human behavior and emotions.

Shakespeare used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, called blank verse. His plays were composed using blank verse, although there are passages in all the plays that deviate from the norm and are composed of other forms of poetry and/or simple prose.

What are Shakespeare’s Most Famous Quotes?

• ” To be, or not to be: that is the question:
• “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,
• “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
• “Men at some time are masters of their fates: