Shakespeare

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Shakespeares comedies

• Kristiina Reinfeldt
• 11b

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William Shakespeare

• comedies, tragedies and histories
• the optimistic period (1590-1601)

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• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Cymbeline
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Pericles Prince of Tyre
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter's Tale
• Troilus and Cressida

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Shakespeares comedies

• Easy-flowing blank verse
• Imaginary country
• Similar to a fairy-tale
• Characters are true to life
• Heroines
• Writer laughs at his characters
• Renaissance men and women
• Believe in themselves

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Shakespeares comedies

• A struggle of old haters to overcome difficulty,
  often presented by young people
• Separation and re-unification
• Mistaken identities
• A clever servant
• Heightened tensions, often within a couple
• One, intertwining plot
• Frequent punning

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