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Shakespeare’s Plays Allison Lee

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Shakespeare’s PlaysAllison Lee

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Most of the plays were produced at 1590~1613

Formed one of literature’s greatest legacies Wrote comedies, histories, tragedies Made a wide social mix of people Was very popular from the old days Some people were skeptical to

Shakespeare’s work

General

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Based on classical models Richard III and Henry VI were the first

recorded works

Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII King John Richard II, Richard III

Histories

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in mid 1590s, wrote comedies based on Roman and Italian models

Later plays were mainly romantic and comical

Also mixed comedies to history

The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, etc

Comedies

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Wrote tragedies until 1608 Mostly about love, fatal errors Sometimes also added supernatural

elements Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar,

Macbeth, etc

Tragedies

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