Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on on : william shakespeare: a midsummer nights dream, hamlet, prince of denmark, and macbeth.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on on : william shakespeare: a midsummer nights dream, hamlet, prince of denmark, and macbeth. All these developments led to the formation of a new genre known as the tragicomedy. This mixed elements of both the comedy and the tragedy to create new forms of theatre on the stage that replaced the traditional ones that relied on catharsis and the comic resolution. This paper shall look at the plays,&nbsp.A Midsummer Night’s Dream,&nbsp.Hamlet&nbsp.and&nbsp.Macbeth&nbsp.to examine the nuances of this genre that was a new addition to the Elizabethan theatre. These plays were noteworthy for their combination of tragic elements with those of comedy to challenge classical norms of drama while retaining the popular appeal that these plays held for the masses and the elites.

Shakespeare was not educated in the same manner that his contemporary writers like Ben Johnson and Christopher Marlowe were. Having run away to London at a young age, it was not possible for Shakespeare to acquire the classical education that his contemporaries could and would enable him to acquire the kind of knowledge that would enable him to be familiar with works like those of Aristotle that prescribed a certain format for a certain form of literature. As a result of this, Shakespeare had to face a lot of criticism from critics who did not feel that his works were of a high quality. however, the novelty that his works afforded endeared him to the masses and certain sections of the elite classes of the society (Bevington). He enjoyed the support of these sections of the society and more importantly, of the monarchs of the period in which he wrote and this resulted in immense popularity for the bard. Many of these people thought that the representation of life that Shakespeare presented on the stage was more realistic than those that were seen till then in those plays that, in their efforts to adhere to the classical norms, failed to produce a life-like representation of events on stage.