Shakespearean comedy
Festive Elizabethan play
Shakespearean comedy refers to the comedic plays written by William Shakespeare, characterized by romantic plots, mistaken identities, witty wordplay, and endings that resolve in marriage and reconciliation.
The term also describes works in this style: The film has a Shakespearean comedy feel, with its love triangles and cases of mistaken identity.
These plays contrast with Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.
- disguiseIdentity-concealing alteration
- marriageFormal union between partners
- songMusical piece with words
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- punsJokes using sound similarities
dance · love · romance · love triangle · fool · Beatrice · Rosalind · rhyming couplets · Twelfth Night · mistaken identity · transformation · forest · fairies · conflict resolution · farce · wooing · stage · revelry
Shakespearean comedyShakespearean tragedy
Fatal stage work, sixteenth century
Shakespearean comedytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
tragic drama · catastrophe · classical tragedy · Greek tragedy · modern tragedy
Shakespearean comedytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
lamentation · dirge · elegy · pathos · dramatic irony