Friday, May 14, 2010

My research topic

What are all the names of William Shakespeare's plays people may ask? Well I have wanted to know that to. Some people may know some of them. Some of the more common ones such as Romeo and Juliet, or Hamlet. But not everyone knows all of them.
Shakespeare's plays are split up into categories. The categories names are History, Tradegy, and Comedy. In his History category there is ten plays. In his Tradegy category there is also ten plays. In his thrid category which is Comedy there is seventeen plays. That makes a total of thirty-seven plays.
The titles in the history category for William Shakespeare's plays consist of King Henry IV Part 1, King Henry IV Part 2, King Henry V, King Henry VI Part 1, King Henery VI Part 2, and King Henry VI Part 3.Some More of William Shakespeare's plays in this catergory consisted of King Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, and Richard III. These are all the ten history plays that William Shakespeare wrote.
The titles in the tradegy category for Williams Shakespeare's plays consist of Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Julius Caesar. Most of Shakespeare's plays have famous sayings that are used daily over the radio or in just normal talk. Some of the more common sayings is "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" That saying comes from the play Romeo and Juliet, or "To be or not to be- that is the question." That is a qoute from Hamlet. Some more of the tradegy plays are King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus. Those are all ten of the tradegy plays that William Shakespeare wrote.
The plays that William Shakespeare wrote in the category if comedy are Winter's Tale, Two Gentlemen Of Verona, The Tempest, Comedy Of Errors and Taming of the Shrew. Also there is Alls Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Cymbeline, and Love's Labour's Lost. Shakespeare is widely known for Twelfth Night. He also hasd written plays such as Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Troilus and Cressida. Those are the seventeen plays that William Shakespeare wrote that belonged in the category of comedy.
William Shakespeare has been known worldwide for one of the widely regarded writter in the english language and the worlds "pre-eminent dramatists." So the question was asked, What is the names of all Shakespeare's plays. Well there you have it. There is all thirty-seven titles and some qoutes from some of the plays that William Shakespeare has written.



Cites:
http:://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/william_shakespeare
http:://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-plays.htm
http:://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-qoutes.htm

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