Shakespeare plays

Shakespeare plays

1. Tragedies

   • caracteristics
     • the hero willl die at the end of the play
     • supernatural elements
       • ghost
       • potions
       • witches
     • things are inevitable
       • characters are trapped in their situation
     • character is isolated
     • social breakdown
     • tragic irony
       • we know what will happen, but the characters don't
     • comic relief
       • at some point a character says a joke
   • Hamlet
   • Macbeth
   • Romeo & Juliet

2. Comedies

   • caracteristics
     • there is a young couple
     • elder people does not want them together
     • the couple will be separated
     • people do not die
     • mistaken identity
     • family problems that are solved at the end
     • at the end young people get married
     • woods
       • the history happen there
       • at some point characters go there
   • The merchant of Venice
   • Cymbeline

3. Historical

   • Henry VI
   • Richard III
   • Henry V