Shakespeare Genres
By: Hunter Klickman
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com
http://www.shakespeareonline.com/biography/shakespearelanguage.html
Grade Level: 12th
Content Area:
Shakespearean writing
and understanding the
text.
Students will research
different Shakespeare
books and find
information on books
chosen.
Shakespeare Genres
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Tragedy
Comedy
History
Shakespeare’s Style of Writing
 Shakespeare wrote in a way which was made up of
lines of non-rhyming Iambic Pentameter.
Shakespeare’s Writing Structure
 Although Shakespeare wrote using very complex
sentence structures and difficult language, his words
are considered to be written in Modern English.
Shakespeare Language
 http://www.shakespeare-
online.com/biography/shakespearelanguage.html
Tragedy
In Shakespeare's
tragedies, there is
always a noble hero
who enjoys little social
status but is usually
defeated by his own
flaws and weaknesses.
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Comedy
Shakespeare’s 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.
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History
Shakespeare’s comedy
plays contained both
tragedy and comedy in
their plots. Most of
these plays contained
some sort of historical
element from history.
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Hamlet
HAMLET IS KNOWN AS ONE OF
SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST TRAGEDY PLAYS.
IT IS ABOUT A KING WHO IS MURDERED BY
HIS OWN BROTHER. PRINCE HAMLET, THE SON
OF THE KING WHO WAS KILLED, SEE’S HIS
FATHER AS A GHOST AND IS ASKED TO KILL
CLAUDIUS, HIS FATHER’S BROTHER.
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All’s Well That Ends Well
 All’s 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.
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Julius Caesar
 Julius 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.
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Macbeth
 Macbeth is also seen as one of Shakespeare’s 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.
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As You Like It
 “As 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.
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Henry V
 Henry 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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Romeo And
Juliet
Shakespeare’s 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.
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Henry VI Part I
Part I of Henry VI shows King Henry VI grow up
during the years of 1422 and 1445.
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Twelfth Night
 Twelfth Night is a comedy about a lady named Viola
who crashes on an imaginary island called Illyria.
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