What kind of books did Shakespeare write?

Answer 1

Actually, quite a variety. He wrote a whole bunch of plays that are called "comedies" but they are very different. The Comedy of Errors was a comedy written in the Classical Style, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor are knockabout farces, Love's Labour's Lost is full of intellectual satire, Troilus and Cressida is so cynical as to be nihilistic, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream are fantasies, The Merchant of Venice has a serious dramatic subplot against a lighthearted romantic main plot, Much Ado About Nothing is the archetypal romantic comedy, Measure for Measure is a dark and serious play which just escapes being tragedy because everyone miraculously survives, Twelfth Night is a mistaken identity story, The Winter's Tale is a deeply sad play which moves toward a surprise happy ending.

The histories include the pompous and spectacular Henry VIII and King John, the sprawling Henry VI Part II (with more characters than any other Shakespeare play), the patriotically inspiring Henry V, Richard III, which is virtually a tragedy, and the two parts of Henry IV, which are virtually comedies.

And the tragedies include the blood-and-guts slasher play Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, a play with practically no women in it, the spooky Macbeth, the tale of romantic love Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, which is about aging and madness, the clunkily moralistic Timon of Athens, Hamlet, a man who famously spends a lot of time talking about himself, and Coriolanus, who never talks about himself.

Basically, the plays Shakespeare wrote are so diverse and inventive in their style and structure that some people don't believe one person could have that much creative genius.

Answer 2

Back in the day, Shakespeare was one of the most popular playwrights in England. His plays are traditionally divided into histories, tragedies and comedies, but some plays are hard to categorize. He wrote many different genres of plays including fantasy (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest) romance (Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing), pastorals (As You Like It), political intrigues (Julius Caesar, Richard III), war stories (Henry V), Horror (Titus Andronicus, Macbeth) and many others.

Answer 3

This would depend, as in some or maybe all Shakespeare switches from using Verse form into Prose form.

Thus normally having a symbolic meaning.

As in 'Othello' it's used to highlight where a character is being treacherous, and because of this the passage becomes Prose to highlight that the character is not worthy of verse form, as verse (poetry) was seen to be a high form of literature.

Answer 4

He didn't "play" poems. He played in plays, some of which he wrote himself, and others which were written by others, including comedies, including "city comedies" like Every Man in his Humour by Ben Jonson, and "tragicomedies", as popularized by Beaumont and Fletcher, like his own The Winter's Tale, tragedies, and histories. His theatre company didn't play much in the pastoral genre, although As You Like It comes close.

Shakespeare wrote poems also, both to be sold publicly (like Venus and Adonis) or to be shared privately (like the sonnets). They were not for performance.

Answer 5

William Shakespeare wrote a variety of plays and poems, including tragedies (such as "Hamlet" and "Macbeth"), comedies (such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Twelfth Night"), and histories (such as "Henry V" and "Richard III"). His works have greatly influenced English literature and remain widely studied and performed today.

Answer 6

Shakespeare wrote sonnets and long love poems.

Answer 7

If you mean what type did he write, we associate him with sonnets.

Answer 8

He wrote plays and poetry.