1. Shakespearean comedies
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2. The plays in First Folio:
histories
tragedies
comedies
Shakespearean comedy:
written in Iambic pentameter
happy ending
involving marriages
cheerful
imaginary country
true characters
“green world’’
strain between Dionysian and Apollonian values

3. Comedies: A struggle of old haters Separation and re-unification
Mistaken identities
A clever servant
Heightened tensions
One plot
Frequent punning

4. In Shakespeare’s comedies we can notice:
Foreshadowing
Foreboding
human faults and mistakes:
lack of generosity
inability to share in the pleasures of others
combination of tragedy and humour
use of the lower class
music

5. Shakespeare’s comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (not included in the First Folio)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (not included in the First Folio)

6. Twelfth Night written in1600-01 Twelfth Night's entertainment
mistaken identity
The main characters:
Lady Olivia
Orsino
Viola as Cesario

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