LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Tragedy
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Comedy
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Romance
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History
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Detailed explanation-1: -Synopsis. Henry V is a history play, probably written around 1599. It covers events during the Hundred Years’ War, immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415). Soon after he becomes king, Henry V is considering making a claim to rule France as well as England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s works were originally divided into three main styles or genres: Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. The wonderful thing about Shakespeare’s works is that no play sticks entirely to its genre.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tragedies, comedies and histories.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plays such as Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra depict historical events from classical antiquity, for example, while King Lear and Cymbeline dramatize the history of ancient Britain and Macbeth depicts the historical events not of medieval England but rather of medieval Scotland.