Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet." It may be based on an older anonymous version.
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Aeschylus wrote about tragedies.
Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, histories, and tragicomedies.
Mainly he wrote tragedies, but he also wrote comedies.
The last play of Shakespeare's four great tragedies is "Macbeth" and it was written in 1606. He wrote the first of the great tragedies, "Hamlet" in 1600.
You might think that William Shakespeare mainly wrote tragedies because he is most famous for his tragedies, but actually he wrote almost twice as many comedies (18) as tragedies (10) and histories (10).
He mostly wrote tragedies, and had one comedy called Ah, Wilderness!
People paid good money to see them performed, and still do.
yes. He wrote Romeo and Juliet (which is the most famous) and he wrote many romantic comedies and tragedies that were somewhat romantic.
Shakespeare wrote almost twice as many comedies as he did tragedies or histories.
Euripides (485 - 406 BCE) wrote very realistic tragedies dealing with psychological issues. He wrote such plays as "The Trojan Woman."