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shakespeare tragedy vs comedy
Title: shakespeare tragedy vs comedy
Category: Literature / English
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shakespeare tragedy vs comedy
Shakespeare's Comedy vs. Tragedy
Certain parallels can be drawn between William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of lovers, Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectively. Both plays could have also easily been tragedy or comedy with a few simple changes. A tragic play is a play in which one or more characters have a …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…whose attention is focused mainly on the disorder and incongruities of the surface? And can we say that life is tragic when we view it from within, from the point of view of an individual—our own point of view or that of someone with whom we identify ourselves by sympathetic insight, as we do with Romeo and Juliet? …the world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel” (Myers 110).
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