Definition of Comedy: A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters,and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays.(wikipedia.org)

Definition of Tragedy:A play,that portrays or depicts calamitous events and has an unhappy but meaningful ending. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea. A tragic aspect or element. (Answers.com)

I prefer to watch Shakespeare's comedy's, more than tragedy's because I dislike the endings of his tragedy's, I always end up wishing I didn't watch the tragedy. Therefore, I like comedy's more, plus most of them are funny and more enjoyable. Today I watched As you like It, a comedy play, this BBC movie lasted 150 minutes. I enjoyed it, but did not find it funny. Four couples got married at the end! This is typical shakespere comedy.


Today I found out that Shakespeare wrote three genre History, Comedy, and Tragedy.


List of tragedies by William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra Tragedy
Othello Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida Tragedy
Hamlet Tragedy
Coriolanu Tragedy
King Lear Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet Tragedy
Julius Caesar Tragedy
Timon of Athens Tragedy
Macbeth Tragedy
Titus Andronicus Tragedy

List of comdeies by William Shakespeare

Merry Wives of Windsor Comedy
Love's Labour's Lost Comedy
Much Ado about Nothing Comedy
All's Well That Ends Well Comedy
Twelfth Night Comedy
Taming of the Shrew Comedy
Measure for Measure Comedy
Two Gentlemen of Verona Comedy
As You Like It Comedy
Winter's Tale Comedy
Merchant of Venice Comedy
Merchant of Venice Comedy
Tempest Comedy
Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy

List of history play by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part II History
Richard III History
Henry IV, Part IIHistory
Cymbeline History
Henry VI, Part III History
Henry IV, Part I History
Henry V History
Henry VIII History
Henry VI, Part I History
Pericles History
Richard II History
King John History


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Review of Much ado about Nothing By William Shakesphere

1 hour 51 ,mins.

I liked this play a lot, this movie was a comedy, but at times I thought it just might be tradgy.I thought this more then once. One time in the beginning, when Claudio told his friend the Prince that he was in love with this maid named Hero. So the Prince suggested since he was more brave and out going, at the masked ball he would pretend to be Claudio. Therefore when the Prince was pretending to be Claudio like an impostor, he instead asked Hero to be his wife instead of Claudio; or this is what I thought had happened. When this occurred I had to read the back of the movie to see if it was really a comedy or not. Later on in the movie we find out that the Prince really did ask Hero to marry Claudio instead of for him self.
Another time I thought this play was a tragedy was at the the end when Beatrice asked Benedict to kill Claudio because he humiliated her cousin Hero at her wedding. Only because the Prince's brother tricked Claudio that Hero was sleeping with another man. So at Hero's wedding he said in front of every one that she was not a maid . Her father in shock believed Claudio. Yet, I knew that the Prince's brother, Don Jon (the bastard) wanted this marriage to not take place. This part upset me a lot because I new that Hero was innocent. Don Jon was an evil, unhappy, negative person who just want to see people as unhappy as he was. In the whole play he was this way and it made you hate him, plus he was trying to brake up Hero and Claudio.
Beatrice and Benedict both said in the beginning of the play "That they would never get married!", but they secretly liked each other, not even wanting to admit it to them selves. When Hero and Claudio were going to get married, the Prince made a bet that he could get Beatrice and Benedict together before Hero and Claudio got married, within seven days. Therefore, when Benedict was in the garden the Prince, Claudio, and Hero's father started to walk towards him so he hide because he was embarrassed from the night before. They sat down and started to discuss how much Beatrice loved Benedict and how he is not worthy of her love. Also, that she would rather die than to show that she loved him." As soon as Benedict heard this he leaped with joy and happiness.

In the meantime, Hero and her mother, who are also part of the bet, saw that Beatrice was walking by and begin a conversation about Benedict's love for her. Beatrice interested followed in the bushes. The two started to say that Benedict should be told that Beatrice is unable to love anyone. Beatrice loving Benedict did not want them to do that. They walked away saying to them selves"Cupid kills with arrows some with traps." She was also was ecstatic that he loved her. I loved there love, hate relationship. Needless to say the Prince won the bet, the two fell in love and had a joint wedding with Hero and Claudio.

I thought this play by Shakespeare was very funny and enjoyable. This far it is my favorite and I recommend it . I felt happy and at other times disappointed. I think the title is like all dresses up and nowhere to go. For instance Claudio got all worked up for nothing, he should have trusted his Friend, Claudio did not trust Hero, they all tended to believe the villain. The only thing I did not understand is why Don John made all this trouble for everyone. I wish it was better explained. Maybe it is in the work of shakesphere and the movie version left it out.

Review of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

The movie I watched was about William Shakespeare's play the Taming of the Shrew, it starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It was about a scolding nagging bad-tempered women or 'shrew', named Kate or Katharina. This Kate, had a little sister named Bianca that every one in the town loved, and her father loved her more than Kate. However, her father would not allow anyone to marry his younger daughter until his elder daughter, Kate was married first. Therefore, Bianca's suitors try to find some one to marry this horrible shrew.

Then they found a man that was willing to marry Katharina, because of her money or dowry. He was a poverty-stricken gentleman, looking for a wealthy wife, his name was Petruchio. When he gets to her house, she is tearing apart her room. Throwing chairs, lamps tables and more. Yet, when he walks into the room she stops, for just a moment and then, continues to scream and yell. Petruchio finally gets her to calm down and to agree to marry him.

On their wedding day , Petruchio dressed like a joker,which completely embarrassed Katharina. After that, she was furious and when the Priest asked her "Will you take Petruchio as your husband?" She said "I WILL ....." but Petruchio kissed her right before she could say "NEVER!"and they were married.


After they were married and he got his money from her father, Petruchio wanted to leave her behind at the wedding banquet. But she followed him and he put her on a donkey in the rain. They did not go to eat at the wedding banquet. Petruchio rides off on a horse, thinking that Katharina would not follow but she followed in the rain and the snow. When she gets to his house it is despicable and dusty. The next day she cleans and fixes his gross house.

That same day she finds out that her little sister was to be married. The next day Petruchio said " Wake up, lets go to your sister's." Katharina said " But my lord its two in the morning" He replied "No it is seven in the morning, if you want to go to your sisters wedding "She said " No it's, seven" in the sweetest voice she could. So they went on their way to Bianca's wedding. Petruchio said" Isn't the sun so beautiful" Kate exclaimed " That is not the sun, that is the moon" He said " That is the sun, if I say it's the sun."

So Katharina and Petruchio went to Bianca's wedding. During the wedding banquet all the men made a bet to see who had the most obedient wife. The winner got 4,000 crowns or money. The first man which was the husband of Kate's sister says to his servant " Tell my wife to come to me". His servant came and told him that" Your wife said, she was busy".The second man told his servant to "Have my wife come to me right away". His servant came running back and said "Your wife said if you want me, then you come to me".Petruchio told this servant "Tell my wife that I demand her to come here".

His servant came back running. He looked behind him and there was Katharina, in one arm was her sister and in the other arm was the other man's wife. She let go of them and she said to her sister and the other wife " Women are soft and fragile and God made us this way. Men are Strong and brave and God made them that way to protect us and shelter us. We should thank them since we are unable to do this for are ourselves. So us women should obey and honor our husbands." She makes the other two girls kneel and her self as well, she puts her hand out and Petruchio helps her up. This was a very touching part in the movie, it showed that Katharina was tamed and was now a good obedient wife. She left the room and Petruchio ran after her. He no longer just loved her for her money but now loved her for her.

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I liked this movie a lot it was funny and very moving. At the begin you hate Kate, in the middle you feel sorry for her and at the end you love her! Most of the movie you dislike Petruchio but at the end he was the one who made Kate who she was at the end, so you have to end up liking him.