cause he said he wanted to
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It and Merchant of Venice.
Greek tragedy
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
Mainly he wrote tragedies, but he also wrote comedies.
happy comedies, problem plays, romantic comedies.
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It and Merchant of Venice.
If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.
Greek tragedy
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
Mainly he wrote tragedies, but he also wrote comedies.
happy comedies, problem plays, romantic comedies.
Shakespeare's comedies have happy endings
William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. They are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies. See the related question for a full list of his plays.
Since you are asking this in the category 'Shakespeare': he wrote tragedies (10), histories (10), romances (5) and comedies (13).
Shakespeare wrote 18 comedies. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure and Cymbeline are three of them.
It depends what you mean by "romantic comedies". Most of Shakespeare's comedies are romantic in nature and end in weddings all around. Some of his late comedies are called "romances" and they end in reconciliations and reunifications all around instead of weddings.
Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, histories, and tragicomedies.