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Title: Shakespeare


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Shakespeares comedies
  • Elina Netšajeva 11a

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The plays of William Shakespeare were grouped
into
  • Comedies
  • Histories
  • Tragedies

3
Comedy
  • Is set in an imaginary country (Illyria)
  • Is similar to a fairy-tale
  • Characters are true to life

4
  • In Shakespeares comedies female heroines are
    usually more important than male heroes
  • But in Shakespearian
  • time men played all the
  • roles even female ones
  • In characters we can
  • see many mistakes
  • and faults

5
The two most important motives in comedy
  • Right of an individual to free choice of love
  • Contrast between the appearance and reality

6
  • Shakespeares comedies are accompanied by music
    and sometimes actors play music instruments by
    themselves
  • Songs are often sung by a jester or a fool
    parallel the events of the plot.

7
The main theme in Shakespeares comedies is
  • Romantic love
  • Friendship

8
Themes
  • 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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  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • As You Like It
  • The Comedy of Errors (is believed to be
    Shakespeares earliest comedy, written around
    1592)
  • 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

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Twelfth Night
  • Twelfth Night is a wonderful romantic comedy
    which was named after the Twelfth Night Christmas
    holiday.
  • First performed between 1599 and 1601
  • Contains basic themes like divided twins,
    mistaken identity, true love conquering,
    gender-crossing and love madness.

12
  • Orsino is a strong nobleman who lives in the
    country of Illyria. He is madly in love with the
    gorgeous lady Olivia.

13
  • Viola is a young upper-class woman and the main
    character of the play. She represents herself as
    a man Cesario and goes to work for Orsino
  • and falls in love.
  • Olivia is a good looking,
  • wealthy and noble
  • woman who lived in
  • Illyria . Orsino was in
  • love with her.

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HAPPY END
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