Why did shakespeare write so many romantic tragedies?

Answer 1

Because he loved romance and along with that he also loved violence and love triangles to make the play interesting. Some examples of romantic tragedies he wrote are Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida.

Answer 2

Shakespeare wrote all of his plays for the same reason, to make money. Academics have noted that four of his late plays (Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and the Tempest) seem to deal with folklore elements in their plots and often have a theme of separation followed by reunion. (This is also a theme in the very early play The Comedy of Errors, so Shakespeare was returning to his roots here.) Why he started writing plays around these themes is anyone's guess, but some guesses are that this kind of play had developed a bigger market than before, or that they reflect a more mature look at life. You might also say that he was regressing to themes and plots which were more primitive and more like his early work. Or again, that he was working with collaborators which meant that he had to deal with his collaborators' inexperience, which he did by selecting folkloric plots.

Answer 3

Most of them don't. Most of Shakespeare's plays end happily for most of the characters. In some plays, like As You Like It, or The Merry Wives of Windsor, or A Midsummer Night's Dream, or The Taming of the Shrew, or The Comedy of Errors, everyone is happy. In some, like Twelfth Night or The Merchant of Venice, almost everyone is happy, but one character is not. In some, like Measure for Measure, everyone is more or less happy, although you would expect that some of the characters were scarred by the experience. Occasionally a minor character dies, as in Cymbeline, although everyone else is happy. In Troilus and Cressida everyone except Hector is alive although mostly miserable.

The history plays often end with the end of an era and the start of a new one, so usually one character dies but another one is happy, along with his associates. King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part 2, and Richard III end this way. So does Macbeth, which ends tragically for Macbeth and his wife, but happily for just about everyone else. Likewise the plays based on Roman history.

Most of what we call tragedies end in a bloodbath where the main characters die, and usually everyone else is saddened or horrified by it, as in Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Titus Andronicus or Romeo and Juliet. These are the plays with the truly tragic endings, and there are relatively few of them.

Answer 4

Because he liked to.