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Classic Genres are:
Comedy: Twelfth Night, Midsummer, As You Like It (Classically comedy offers marriage and the hope of a new world order)
Tragedy: Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet (Classically tragedy offers the down fall (and normally death) of the titular character by their own actions and choices (Caesar is the exception to the rule)
History: Henry V, Richard II (Classically dealing with the true monarchs of England)
A fourth contemporary category (used mostly by scholars and not the general public) is romance: Winter's Tale, Tempest - usually marked as a TragioComedy where there is much downfall of characters with an upbeat ending.
A fifth category is much debated: The Problem Play (called thus both because it is very problem driven plot and because it doesn't fit neatly into the three classical or the fourth contemporary categories) Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida. (They tend to have much darker plots that are scattered with comedy, I term it a Comyotragedy where the focus is more on the downfall of the characters but they don't usually die).
Comedy: Twelfth Night, Midsummer, As You Like It (Classically comedy offers marriage and the hope of a new world order)
Tragedy: Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet (Classically tragedy offers the down fall (and normally death) of the titular character by their own actions and choices (Caesar is the exception to the rule)
History: Henry V, Richard II (Classically dealing with the true monarchs of England)
A fourth contemporary category (used mostly by scholars and not the general public) is romance: Winter's Tale, Tempest - usually marked as a TragioComedy where there is much downfall of characters with an upbeat ending.
A fifth category is much debated: The Problem Play (called thus both because it is very problem driven plot and because it doesn't fit neatly into the three classical or the fourth contemporary categories) Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida. (They tend to have much darker plots that are scattered with comedy, I term it a Comyotragedy where the focus is more on the downfall of the characters but they don't usually die).
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