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Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night are sometimes called the "golden comedies". They all have a pretty high per capita marriage count at the end, and do not have the darker elements of some of Shakespeare's later comedies.
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What can you learn from Much Ado about Nothing?
You can learn that Shakespeare wrote romantic comedies long before anyone else was writing romantic comedies.
What are the two most famous comedies of William Shakespeare?
Much Ado About Nothing A Misummer Night's Dream
What are three trageties and three comedies that William Shakespeare wrote?
Tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream
What happens in Much Ado about Nothing that best shows that the play is a comedy?
In it's most general definition, Much Ado... is a comedy because, as most others do, it ends happily. More specifically, as many other Shakespeare comedies to, it ends with a marriage (or the expectation of one).
What are Shakespeare's 4 comedies and tragedies?
Shakespeare wrote eighteen plays which are classified as comedies. There is no consensus that four of them are "great". The four most popular are probably A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing. The plays As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night are sometimes called the "Golden Comedies" because there is very little dark or disturbing material in them. On the other hand The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure and All's Well that Ends Well have significantly dark plotlines in them, which gets them called "Problem Plays". The late comedies The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and Pericles have a folktale element about them, and so some people call them Romances. Shakespeare's comedies often share elements with other comedies and even with the tragedies, but they are so diverse in their style that it is well nigh impossible to pick four "greatest" ones.
Does Claudio's work as a soldier make him a hero in Much Ado about Nothing?
Nope. Don John is a soldier too, and you wouldn't call him a hero, would you? Basically, Much Ado is a comedy, and comedies do not often have heroes in the sense that the tragedies or the histories do. In Shakespeare's comedies, the most powerful character is often a woman, not a man, such as Rosalind, Viola, Imogen, Portia, Isabella and dare I say it, Beatrice.
Are sitcoms only relevant to the year they were produced?
Not necessarily. Some comedies will have lots of references to things that were happening around the time they were made, so the comedy might not mean as much in the future, particularly to audiences who are not familiar with those times. Other comedies are timeless, in that they are always funny. They deal with more general issues and don't make much reference to current events at the time they were made.
What did shakespeare write that wasn't a drama?
He wrote heaps of comedies whic include some clssics such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of The Shrew and many more. He also wrote Poetry.
How much is a green eyed cicada worth?
It's worth nothing. It may be worth something only if the city you are in offers a prize, but other than that nothing. Zero, nada, nunca, nothing.
How do Lefties fall in love?
just love each other nothing much to it
A man has nothing but as much rope as requires to cross a canyon how does he get to the other side?
Take a helicopter to the other side
What were William Shakespeare's romances?
Shakespeare's RomancesWhen Shakespeare's plays were first published as a collection, in the First Folio of 1621, they were divided into three categories: Histories, Tragedies, and Comedies. There were 10 histories, 11 tragedies, and 15 comedies. In later editions, Cymbeline was considered to be a comedy rather than a tragedy and Pericles was added to the Comedies, making a total of 17. Although there is a great variety of style among the comedies, they broke down into three main groups: earlier comedies, darker comedies written at the same time as the great tragedies and later comedies which involved fairy-tale or legendary plots and elements of pastoral plays and poetry. This last group, which is normally said to comprise The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Pericles and Cymbeline have been given, in the later twentieth century, the name "romances"These are:Pericles, Prince of Tyre - conventionally a Comedy.Cymbelline - conventionally a Tragedy.The Winter's Tale - conventionally a Comedy.The Tempest - conventionally a Comedy.In this context, "Romance" is not the same as "Love Story"so that his best known love story, Romeo and Juliet is a Tragedy, not a Romance. Other fairly tragic stories about couples are Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida. Most of the comedies, on the other hand, are love stories which end happily. Indeed Much Ado About Nothing might be the archetypal romantic comedy.The plays usually called "romances" are Cymbeline, The Tempest, A Winter's Tale and Pericles.Almost all of Shakespeare's 18 comedies are about romantic love in some sense. So too are tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. Some of the history plays have scenes of romantic love too, such as Henry V and Richard III.But scholars often use the label "romances" to describe the late comedies The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest and Pericles.
