Shakespeare

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Shakespeares comedies

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The plays of William Shakespeare were grouped
into

• Comedies
• Histories
• Tragedies

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Comedy

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

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• 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

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The two most important motives in comedy

• Right of an individual to free choice of love
• Contrast between the appearance and reality

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• 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.

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The main theme in Shakespeares comedies is

• Romantic love
• Friendship

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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.

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

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• 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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