Description

Shakespeare wrote Comedies, Histories and Tragedies according to the Table of Contents according to the Complete Works of Shakespeare printed in 1623 and commonly called the First Folio.  What is the distinction between them?  What is cuckoldry and why is Elizabethan England so fascinated by it?  Learn about how marriage and dance hold a comedy together, the sources Shakespeare used to write his comedies, how Much Ado About Nothing is Othello as a comedy and why some of the comedies cause so much discomfort to modern audiences and more.