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William Shakespeare's problem plays. Shakespeare's plays are usually categorised as Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. These categories were applied to the titles of the plays in the first, officially published editions, known as The First Folio. For example, the full title of "Hamlet" in this edition is "The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." Typically, the Comedies have a happy ending, often a wedding, and the Tragedies end in the deaths of several major characters - there are, of course many more subtle differences. In the 19th Century, critics identified "All's Well That Ends Well", "Measure for Measure" and "Troilus and Cressida" as Problem Plays. While these were classified as Comedies in the original editions, they contain darker, more serious themes than the other comedies, and Troilus and Cressida has neither a happy nor a tragic ending. They are problem plays because they contain tragedy and comedy, and cannot easily be classified as one or the other.

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