Comedies and history plays

 

• Four comedies

   The merchant of Venice :

   While advocating benevolence(仁愛), friendship and sincere love, it                reflects the class oppression and racial discrimination in the Christian          society.

   As you like it

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   Twelfth night (What you will)

   This play satirize excessive behavior, such as excessive love or exclusion.      And in the story the world implying a world out of reality, so any plot can      be explained or ridiculous ending also can be established.

   The midsummer night dream

   | History plays |

​   Shakespeare's history plays cover the 12 -16 centuries and the 1399-      1485 period in particular. Each historical play is named after the            reigning monarch of the period and they reflect his opposition to            the centralize power and hope to establish humanistic political and        moral ideals.

• Shakespeare’s historical plays are :

   King John", "Richard II", "Henry IV", "Henry V", "Henry                                  VI", "Henry IV", "Richard III", "Henry VIII"