![]() There are two plays typically listed here: All’s Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure. 3.The Black Comedies are more morbid and were written at the same time most of Shakespeare’s best tragedies were and were probably affected by the death of his young son. ![]() They are wrapped around celebrations of life such as folk-festivals and weddings: Love’s Labors Lost, Twelfth Night, Midsummers Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and even The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, and Taming of the Shrew all thrive on disguises2.The Festive Comedies are later and more sophisticated plays. 1.The Confusion Comediesare early and primitive. A comedy was a play which started out in chaos and ended with everyone in the script alive and living “happily ever after.” There are four sub-groups in Shakespearean Comedy. ![]() ![]() Humor was not a requirement (note The Merchant of Venice where it is hard to find anything funny about it). Introduction to Comic Theory Comedy meant something very different to the Elizabethan culture of Shakespeare’s time than it does to the Twentieth Century. Some Notes on the Comedies of William Shakespeare Eng 255 Shakespeare on Film Terra Community College ![]()
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