The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare

ebook

By William Shakespeare

cover image of The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Download Libby on the App Store Download Libby on Google Play

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Library Name Distance
Loading...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The plays of Shakespeare that are usually categorised as comedies are generally identifiable as the comedies of Shakespeare in that they are full of fun, irony and dazzling wordplay. They also abound in disguises and mistaken identities with very convoluted plots that are difficult to follow, with very contrived endings. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Patterns in the comedies include movement to a "green world", both internal and external conflicts, and a tension between Apollonian and Dionysian values.

Table of Contents:

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

The Comedy Of Errors

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

The Taming Of The Shrew

The Tempest

Twelfth Night Or, What You Will

The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.

The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare