Shakespeare’s Romance Comedies?

Shakespeare’s later works are tragi-comedies, combining elements of comedy and tragedy. Four plays, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, are classified as romances. These plays feature supernatural occurrences and happy endings, with conflicts resolved and flawed characters redeemed. Scholars speculate that Shakespeare may have been following a trend or planning for retirement. Towards […]

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