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A 5 page paper which examines how two of
Shakespeare’s plays take the reader from light-hearted, or comedic, to serious or tragedy.
The plays discussed are “Romeo and Juliet” and “Winter’s Tale.” No additional sources
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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starting with the beginning of many of his plays. In this he subconsciously allows us to see where the play will go. However, there are usually crucial, and very obvious,
points in his plays where the shift is incredibly apparent. In "Romeo and Juliet" and "Winters Tale" we have two stories that at first glance provide us with light-hearted conditions
and realities. The plays then offer us a shift from that light-hearted, even comedic, atmosphere to one that is dramatic or tragic. In the following paper we examine the two
plays mentioned in regards to this shift that Shakespeare was so skilled at presenting. Comedy to Tragedy It should be noted, first and foremost, that the two plays
discussed are not truly considered actual comedies. Many consider the confusion of "Winters Tale" to have comedic elements, but Romeo and Juliet is certainly not a comedy. However, it should
also be noted that when the plays first begin they are not urgently dramatic or tragic. In the beginning of "Winters Tale," for example, we find a play that offers
us Hermione as a gentle and truly passionate woman. She is caring, considerate and insists that Polixenes stay with them longer, for she wants to hear more of Polixenes and
her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In the following scene we see her
innocence and a hint of comedic presence when she is insisting that Polixenes stay: "Will you go yet? Force me to keep you as a prisoner, Not like a
guest; so you shall pay your fees When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread Verily, One of them you
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