Tragedies, Comedies and Histories

There are always 3 types of Shakespeare Plays

Comedy

A Shakespearean comedy is one that always the light-hearted playes which always have a happy ending,  The happy ending often involve marriage for all the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more sweet and lovablethan Shakespeare’s other plays.

Comedies often have

A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty that is often presented by elders
Separation and unification
Mistaken identities
A clever servant
Heightened tensions, often within a family
Multiple, intertwining plots
Frequent use of puns

List of Shakespeare Plays

• All’s Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Cymbeline
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Pericles Prince of Tyre
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter’s Tale

Tragedy

Shakespeare first plays were tragedies. In most or all of Shakespeare’s the protagonist is admired but doomed, the villain is very evil and will die and most of the supporting characters will probably die.

List of Shakespeare’s Tragedies

• Troilus and Cressida
• Coriolanus
• Titus Andronicus
• Romeo and Juliet
• Timon of Athens
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cymbeline

Histories

Histories are normally described as those based on the lives of English kings

• King John
• Richard II
• Henry IV, part 1
• Henry IV, part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, part 1
• Henry VI, part 2
• Henry VI, part 3
• Richard III
• Henry VIII