We don't know what Shakespeare was concerned about at any time in his life--he did not leave records of his personal feelings.
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Tragedy is from ancient Doric Greek, meaning a "goat weaner" it was used by shakespeares actors.
Tragedy, comedy, and history.
In the 16th Century, there were only 2 literary genres: Comedy and Tragedy.
Hamlet says it to himself in the play: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke
It's a comedy. Just about everybody gets married at the end, except Jaques, of course.
a series where tragedies happen is the series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket
Julius Caesar is generally called a tragedy. Although it might as easily have been called a history.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Many people immediately think romance, and in fact it may be both, but the full title of the play is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
The lessons we learned from the 9/11 tragedy were; kindness, respect, loyalty, and always be prepared.
The most popular play in Shakespeare's day was Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy which was written in the 1580s and was being constantly revived into the seventeenth century.
Shakespeare loved playing with people's expectations, but not too much. Most everyone in the theatre already knew the story of Romeo and Juliet, and those that didn't got the short summary in the Prologue. In many ways Romeo and Juliet starts out like a comedy: the middle-class setting, the concern with love, and no real political issues, and it was unusual to turn a story which started out that way into a tragedy. But Romeo and Juliet was hardly the first love-driven tragedy in the Elizabethan theatre--the most consistently popular play of the period, The Spanish Tragedy starts off with the competition of two men for one woman.