SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING By Alex Garcia, Ethan Frank, and Colin
White
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PLAYS Shakespeares plays are traditionally divided into the
three categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and
tragedies. The plays within each grouping vary widely. Among the
comedies, for example, one can find sunny works filled with the
banter of witty lovers; hilariously complicated farces; and darker,
more sober plays such as The Tempest(Folger).
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COMEDY PLAYS All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The
Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost A Midsummer Night's
Dream
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SONNETS Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more
lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sonnet 18, lines
14 When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her
though I know she lies Sonnet 138, lines 12
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SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING He wrote 884,647 words in his whole
writing career, and 118,406 lines. He wrote 38 plays in his whole
career. His longest play was Hamlet, it was 4,042 lines. His
shortest play was The Comedy of Errors with 1,787 lines.
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HIS WORDS Some examples of words he created while writing his
poems and plays. Schoolboy Addiction Amazement Rival Useful
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WORDS CONTINUED Madcap Flowery Spectacled Pedant Gentlefolk
Fathomless Lackluster
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TRAGEDIES Most of what Shakespeare wrote were tragedies, his
tragedies were his basically his personal experiences he
encountered throughout his life. Hamlet Julius Cesar
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WORKS CITED Floger Shakespeare Library. Discover Shakespeare.
Mimi Godfrey, 2005. Web. 25 April 2013.