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Shakespeare wrote in poetry, even when he was writing plays.
Shakespearean.
it is a tragedy chiefly
He is famous for Tragedy, Comedy, and Historical plays.
It's a style of writing called 'tragedy.' Something that is generally unacceptable and "tragic" for the readers. Romeo and Juliet's being a Tragedy is what made it controversial and interesting enough because of an ending we do not want to happen to ourselves. If shakespeare made a different ending, we may not be talking about it now.
From a book called Plutarch's Lives
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Henry L. Hinton has written: 'Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth' 'Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet' 'Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet'
Titus Andronicus (1593) was the FIRST tragedy Shakespeare wrote. His last tragedy was Timon of Athens.
The Merchant of Venice, despite its blatant antisemitism, is considered a 'romance' by top Shakespeare scholars because it has no decisive style as do most of Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeares 4 types of writing were solioquy, asides, blank verse, and prologuesIf anyone wrote today the way Shakespeare did, it would be called an archaic style, although of course it was perfectly contemporary at the time Shakespeare wrote it. I would describe it as an ornate style.
Yes, Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare) is a tragedy.