What are Shakespeares Comedies?
William Shakespeare’s comedies were the reason for his early stage success in London. The plays often revolve around marriage and family matters, and have happy endings. Shakespeare’s comedies evolved over his career, losing much of the bawdy humor of his early work, and even approaching dark or black humor in his last plays.
William Shakespeare’s comedies were the reason for his early stage success in London. The plays often revolve around marriage and family matters, and have happy endings. Shakespeare’s comedies evolved over his career, losing much of the bawdy humor of his early work, and even approaching dark or black humor in his last plays. The Comedy of Errors is believed to be Shakespeare’s earliest comedy, written around 1592. The play features a separated set of noble identical twins, which happen to have servants who are also a set of separated identical twins. The play is one of Shakespeare’s shortest, and relies heavily on sight-gags of mistaken identity, a very common device in Shakespeare’s comedies. The later comedy, Twelfth Night similarly features twins, but is even more confusing as one twin is male and the other female.
