Shakespeare's Art of Comedy

Shakespeare differs from many other playwrights in several respects, the most prominent of these features being the creation of tragic and comic characters and situations, as well as the dimension of merging things that ostensibly have no affinity with one another. Among other things, Shakespeare cultivated the myth of romantic marriage in the form of comedy more than any other comedy writer. What makes him so unique is his entry into the minds and hearts of characters while they are in revelry or playing the fool. Shakespeare never creates comedy in the form of a conventional understood concept. The secret of his art lies in how he creatively responds to life...