At first, his plays were comedies, but as he became more popular he started writing tragedies that turned out to be his strongest element in his writing. ... There he learned Greek mythology, roman comedy, ancient history, rhetoric, grammar, Latin and possibly the language Greek. ... Between 1590-1592 Shakespeare created a series of plays known as Henry VI series, Richard III, and the Comedy of Errors, were performed. ...

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William Shakespeare was born sometime late in April in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England to parents John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church so it is assumed to be April 23. William was the third child of eight. John Shakespear...

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Therefore, his ideas on subjects such as romantic love, heroism, comedy, and tragedy have helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. ... These are comedy, tragedy, and history. Three plays which are in the category of comedy are "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "The Two Gentlemen of Verone". ...

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Therefore, his ideas on subjects such as romantic love, heroism, comedy, and tragedy have helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. ... These are comedy, tragedy, and history. Three plays which are in the category of comedy are "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "The Two Gentlemen of Verone". ...

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Therefore, his ideas on subjects such as romantic love, heroism, comedy, and tragedy have helped shape the attitudes of millions of people. ... These are comedy, tragedy, and history. Three plays which are in the category of comedy are "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "The Two Gentlemen of Verone". ...

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There were three types of plays in 1590, comedy, historical plays, and tragedy. ... Anders took aspects of comedy from the greatest clown of the sixteenth century, Will Kempe. ... Anders asserted these techniques of comedy into Shakespeare's, Love's labor Lost (c.1590), The Comedy of Errors (c.1592), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (c.1594), etc. ...

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After the success of his historical play, he wrote a tragedy called Titus Andronicus, and then The Comedy of Errors, a humorous comedy. ... Not many play writes of this time mixed comedy with tragedy, but he did this because the two elements combine in real life and he felt they were free to combine in his plays. ... "In the early days of The Globe, Shakespeare wrote three of his best romantic comedies: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing. ... After many comedies, Shakespeare wrote the Roman tragedy Julius Caesar. ...

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William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" is a romantic comedy which tells the love stories of the main characters Claudio and Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick. The play is classified as a comedy for a number of different reasons. ... He says, " Trust not my age, My reverence, calling, nor divinity, If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here Under some biting error." ... The stories have to be resolved in a happy ending, as the play is a comedy, so this scene gives the dramatic impact for the rest of the play. ...

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Shakespeare's plays are usually divided into three major categories, these are Three plays which are in the category of comedy are The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Two Gentlemen of Verone. ...

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William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, Published According to the true Original Copies, also known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, the reference to the author of Shakespeare's works as "our ever-living poet" suggests that the author is dead (Whalen 49). ... Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time...

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