Shakespeare Genres

Shakespeare GenresBy: Hunter Klickmanhttp://www.nosweatshakespeare.comhttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespearelanguage.html

1Shakespeare GenresGrade Level: 12th

Content Area: Shakespearean writing and understanding the text.

Students will research different Shakespeare books and find information on books chosen.

Shakespeares Style of WritingShakespeare wrote in a way which was made up of lines of non-rhyming Iambic Pentameter.

Shakespeares Writing StructureAlthough Shakespeare wrote using very complex sentence structures and difficult language, his words are considered to be written in Modern English.

Shakespeare Languagehttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespearelanguage.htmlTragedyIn Shakespeare's tragedies, there is always a noble hero who enjoys little social status but is usually defeated by his own flaws and weaknesses.

Back To Menu SlideComedyShakespeares comedies are always full of fun, ironic puns, or a play on words. They are often times confusing, inlcluding mistaken identities and plots that are hard to follow.

Back To Menu SlideHistoryShakespeares comedy plays contained both tragedy and comedy in their plots. Most of these plays contained some sort of historical element from history.

Back To Menu SlideAlls Well That Ends WellAlls Well That Ends Well is a comedy about an orphaned daughter who falls in love with Count Bertram. He rejects her love, but the King of France forces him to marry her because she heals the ulcerous from his face.

Back To Menu SlideJulius CaesarJulius Caesar can be seen as one of Shakespeare's best historical plays. It is a play that shows how Caesar did anything he could to rise to power, but then started to abuse his powers.

Back To Menu SlideMacbethMacbeth is also seen as one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies. The play is about the murder of a king by his subjects. Macbeth is blamed for the death, but Lady Macbeth accuses him of being unmanly because he hesitated in killing Duncan.

Back To Menu SlideAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a comedy about a lady named Rosaline who is banished by the Duke and is ordered to go to the Forest of Arden, where she goes disguised as a man.

Back To Menu SlideHenry VHenry V is a historical play which shows how Henry V starts out his career being king. Most of the plot takes place in the Battle of Agincourt.

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Back To Menu SlideRomeo And JulietShakespeares Romeo And Juliet is seen as his greatest romantic play. Romeo Montague crashes the Capulets party where he falls in love with Juliet Capulet. The two families are both very rich and have had a past of many feuds with one another.

Back To Menu SlideHenry VI Part IPart I of Henry VI shows King Henry VI grow up during the years of 1422 and 1445.

Back To Menu SlideTwelfth NightTwelfth Night is a comedy about a lady named Viola who crashes on an imaginary island called Illyria.

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