Question

15. Most of Shakespeare’s plays fall into one of three categories, what are the categories? Name at least one play in each category.

Answer 1

The work of the English  English poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare, falls into three main categories: the plays, the sonnets, and the poems. The plays are further divided into three categories: the comedies, the histories, the tragedies, and the romances. The comedies The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream are examples of this cathegory. As well as the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.

Regarding the second category, the sonnets, the traditional Shakespearean Sonnet form has 14 lines comprised of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and one rhyming couplet (two-line stanza). Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets that were published and have survived into perpetuity. One example of them is “From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)”

Finally, examples of the Poems' category are the poems  Venus and Adonis and The Phoenix and the Turtle.