FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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diverse, as he wrote various types of plays and sonnets
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depressing, as most of his work involved tragedy
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humorous, as most of his plays were light-hearted comedies.
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formal, as most of his plays and sonnets focused on form over content
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Detailed explanation-1: -How does the author describe Shakespeare’s body of work? humorous, as most of his plays were light-hearted comedies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s plays are traditionally divided into the three categories of the First Folio: comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tragedies, comedies and histories.
Detailed explanation-4: -His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Detailed explanation-5: -Part of the reason Shakespeare’s Sonnets speak to us so directly is that they are written with their own afterlife in mind. These are poems designed to commemorate the poet’s beloved for all eternity.